So just pull the trigger.

36. Cat got your tongue?

Aki had been able to install a GPS tracker on Ivo's car, and the night before, they had been in the same restaurant where the group had celebrated Misha's birthday. None of them had any clue that they were there. From a corner table, Chris had been able to observe Joni, who was sitting next to Misha, giving loving gazes to the blond man. It tore him to witness it.

The wait was agonizing. The other day, Ryan had tried to call him and for a moment Chris had thought about answering. He had wondered what Ryan would have to say and if it would be enough to change his mind. Aki, who had been in the same room, had given him a stern look and suggested that he'd turn his phone off. A suggestion might be a nice way to put it, a subtle command more likely. Soon after Aki had offered him a drink, assuring him that the wait was almost over. Soon they would get their chance and act.

Chris knew that Aki was texting Joni but couldn't be exactly sure what the messages said because Aki wrote them In Finnish. It was about those pictures, that much he knew. He felt confused, his mood shifted, and he wasn't sure anymore about what they had agreed on. However, he felt that Joni had deserved everything he got, because of the betrayal. They could have been happy together, but Joni chose this, that blond over him.

And now? The jealousy and anger spread like poison in his veins, and he couldn't stomach seeing Joni by Misha's side. Joni had lied to him, broken him, taken advantage of him!

He had moved to Finland for Joni, and he had been happy! For a brief time, he had felt such happiness that couldn't be compared to anything else. Foolishly he had thought that he could keep it. Joni had tricked him into believing that he felt the same for him; betrayal and lies!

The moments from the past played in his mind over and over, what they had, how Joni had been... How passionate they had been. They had sex in every room of their apartment. He remembered when Joni had weekend leaves from the army, and he had come home wearing that uniform; how arousing it had felt to undress him from those clothes. There had been a time when Joni had looked at him the same way he now looked at that Russian.

Chris wanted Misha to suffer the same bitter feeling of loss, the same emptiness.

That night he drank, observing his ex-partner keenly. Joni seemed to stay sober by drinking just water and finally, seeming somewhat upset by the text Aki wrote him, Joni left to the men's room. At the same time, Aki was grinning contentedly to himself.

Chris eyed Aki when he received a text and read it. "Well, well", Aki commented and grinned.

"What did he say?" Chris asked and Aki glanced at him.

"Told you to fuck off among other things," He smiled, "We're close now, I'm sure we'll get him tomorrow. We should get our things ready."

The next day when they saw Ivo's car leaving with the GPS tracker, they followed. The car parked in the parking lot of an apartment building area, and they noticed that Joni wasn't with them. "This is fucking perfect, Chris!" Aki chuckled, "Do you understand what this means?"

Joni would be alone. Their opportunity, the perfect opportunity, Chris felt the excitement in his abdomen. They were so close, soon they would do it! They waited for it to get darker, Aki sent Joni some messages and finally called him multiple times although Chris didn't understand why, it would have made more sense to just... See if the door was even locked? Or ring the doorbell, Joni wouldn't have known to expect them, so... He didn't understand the logic behind Aki's plan.

"This will make it more thrilling! Let's play when we have such a good opportunity to do so!"

Chris had given him an unsure look. "He might have time to call for help," he pleaded. "Let me just go and ring the doorbell, I'm sure he'd come and open, he doesn't even know that we're here."