Deadly Desires

Russian fools

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TW - rape

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"Gabi? Can you hear me?" I whisper into my mic. The silence that follows is deafening. We were put on a mission to take out some high-up gang members from watered-down New York mafia operations.

Marissa had assured me and Gabi that Lotus had done enough research to make sure it would be a relatively easy kill. Walk into a building at the same time Carlos, head of one of the Spanish gangs, was doing a trade and kill him. With any luck, his men would think we were a part of his rival gang and this would get brushed off as gang politics.

However, Gabi was meant to go inside alone and come out after shooting him. She was meant to come out twenty minutes ago. I knew she hadn't been in the field as an assassin long enough to take on this type of work. She worked as a prostitute for a couple of years before managing to qualify as an assassin. She had passed training and her probation period but she'd been doing unmonitored field work for less than a year.

I'd been doing it for almost six years and this mission still made me nervous. I swear to god if she was dead I'd shoot dead every single member of that gang, Gabi was my best friend. Not just in terms of work but outside of it as well. She'd been there for me when I was in recovery after Nikolai stabbed me. I would not let her death go unavenged.

I walked lightly as I weighed up my options, I couldn't go through the front door that was far too obvious. But if they had Gabi I assumed they knew she wasn't here alone. They'd have the backdoor watched. I looked up and spied an open window, I swung my hook up and watched it catch onto the ledge. I fastened the wire to my belt and began to scale the wall. I could only hope there wasn't someone waiting for me up there.

Luckily, the bathroom I climbed into seemed to be in was empty. This house was derelict and the walls were covered in a thick layer of soot, green mould decorated the corners of the walls and that bathtub and sink alone looked like they housed multiple diseases. I didn't even bother looking at the toilet.

The door was slightly ajar and I walked towards it, peering through the cracks. I had tried to alert for help through my mic five minutes ago but it would appear we were somewhere with no service and not a cell tower for miles that Lotus could connect to.

A billion-dollar company with million-dollar tech, and yet I still had to worry about fucking service.

I couldn't see anyone on the landing, or hear anyone talking. I couldn't hear anything except a low hum of energy from the bathroom lights. It was strange, surely someone would be talking. I half expected to hear Gabi screaming as they tortured her.

Perhaps she's already dead.

No, I wouldn't think like that. I couldn't.

I raise my gun close to my chest as I take quiet footsteps onto the landing, I risk peering over the railing but I can't properly see downstairs. There are floorboards all around me upstairs and given how old this house is I imagine every single one of them creeks. Gosh, I wanted to scream.

I reach for my taser and open the door the furthest away from me with my foot. Thank god there's no one waiting behind the door for me. Swallowing my nerves, I throw my taser into the room with as loud of a bang as possible and then run for the room furthest away and hide behind the door.