After Their Story Began

Chapter 33

Adriana's POV

"Listen carefully because I will not be repeating myself. There is a blizzard approaching so in this exercise you will be tasked with surviving in a safe house in the woods. If you ever need to go into hiding you'll often be in the middle of nowhere. The cabin should be stocked with a one week supply of firewood, food, water, and first aid. It should also be stocked with weapons for you to defend yourself." Gramps explained

"That doesn't sound too bad."

"Glad you agree. Get in the car, your exercise begins now."

"Wait shouldn't Nikolai be joining me since he's my second in command?"

"Get in the car."

"Fine."

Five hours later

I fell asleep in the car and just woke up in an area I don't recognize. I just see lots and lots of trees. It's also really foggy out. It was set to start  heavy snowing around ten or eleven pm. It's already nearly seven.

"The road is really icy. You should put on your seatbelt ma'am." The drive tells me in Russian

"Thank you for the heads up." I respond as I buckle up

After ten minutes I noticed him unbuckle his seatbelt and speed up.

"What are you doing?" I ask

I don't get a response because he tuck and rolled out of the moving car. Before I could react the car skid on what I could only assume was black ice and began to spin out on the road. Fortunately for me a tree stopped the out of control car.

I groan at the aching feeling consuming my body. Blinking back tears I sit up. The time in the car reads nine twenty-six. I've been unconscious for nearly two hours. My body feels cold and my head broke the side window. I unbuckle my seat belt and climb in front to dig for the drivers phone. The screen is cracked but the address to the safe house is still pinned on the gps. I search the car and find a pistol and a bottle of water which I take.

The phone starts ringing and it reads gramps. That's when I realize this is my phone that's shattered

I answer

"Glad to see you finally awake."

"What the fuck old man!" I scream

"Watch your mouth Adriana! This is a survival exercise."

"You orchestrated a fucking car crash! I could have died!"

"You were wearing a seatbelt."

"How is this part of the exercise?"

"In this exercise you were on your way to the safe house to hide. Which means there is a threat after you. The car crash made sense when I was planning. Now you have to find your way to the safe house on foot. I should warn you that if your enemies managed to run you off the road they might be with you in that forest."

"Excuse me?"

"Vasilios was able to send us a long list of moles in our mafia. They think they're assisting you in a training exercise but since they're moles chances are they might take this opportunity to kill you. Starting at midnight I'm going to release one person after you every hour until the storm lets up."

"This is why you sent me alone. You're fucking insane! What if I actually get hurt I'm too far away to be saved?"

"Exactly so survive." With that he hung up

"FUCK!"

I screamed and punched the side of the car before beginning my journey through the dark woods