Dinastiya Tested // 3rd Book of the Takaryev Trilogy

Chapter 41

Thaddeus, still in shock from the death of his younger brother, left the hospital and went back home. He curled up in front of the TV and stared off into space, asking two questions: 

1. Was there a god? 

2. If there was a god, was he responsible for Isaac's untimely demise?

Then, a third question entered his mind. 

3. Why would God have done such a thing? What kind of god killed innocent kids?

Thaddeus scowled. A moment or two later, his phone chirped- a text message. He read it with tired blue eyes. 

S lyubovyu iz Rossii. 

Thaddeus texted back. Awaiting orders. 

A reply was nearly instant. Go to the Kremlin. Kill the president. 

The orders were strikingly straightforward, but Thaddeus obeyed anyways. He left the couch and dashed to the room in which he'd set up an entire computer network with Isaac. There was a solitary bookshelf in the room, and Thaddeus heaved it carefully away from the wall, revealing a safe that had been built into the wall. Thaddeus punched in a code he'd memorized in years past, years he couldn't quite reach, and the safe clicked open. Inside the safe was a gun, nothing remarkable, but enough to defend himself (and perhaps kill someone else), and for a last resort, there had been provided a single cyanide pill. Also in the safe, there was an impressing stock of extra ammunition. Thaddeus took all of it. 

As he picked up the ammo, he noticed something underneath them. A government ID card- this was his ticket to the Kremlin. It could've been a one-way ticket, in all honesty, but Thaddeus, in his altered sate of mind, could not care less. He took the ID and went on his way, taking a bus to the Kremlin.