Broken | Lucas North - Spooks/MI5 Story [Featured]

Chapter 14

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"The devil is not as black as he is painted."

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Mikhael hadn't meant to hit her so hard. But the last thing he had expected was a crowbar swinging towards him the moment he opened the trunk. It hit him hard across the arm and cursing angrily, Mikhael punched Alexa in the face, a reaction that was primarily a reflex response more than anything else as pain exploded in his arm where the metal had hit him.

The punch landed across her jaw and Alexa fell back into the interior of the trunk, blood pouring from her mouth. She saw stars exploding before her eyes, and as she fought to maintain consciousness, everything turned black.

Mikhael sighed, hating himself for what he had just done. She'd been through enough for one morning, he thought. He saw the cuts along her wrists from the edge of the metal and glass that had covered the tail light. Why do you have to make it so difficult for yourself, matryoshka?

Mikhael had noticed the other car following him too closely while he had been on motorway, and knew immediately that something was amiss. Someone had spotted the car. Maybe it was already on the news, he thought. And so he had sped off the motorway, hoping to lose a car that was following him, its driver on the phone.

"They will be calling the police," Anatoly said. "You need to lose him."

With Anatoly consulting the road map, they had managed to lose their tail after turning onto one alley after another, and finally disappearing into an abandoned warehouse that Anatoly had directed Mikhael to drive into. "We wait till the idiot drives past," Anatoly said.

As they watched the car drive past, they waited for a few minutes till it was safe to venture out on the road again. The ferry terminal was close by and Mikhael knew that in no time, they'd be safe inside the bowels of the cargo ship that would take him and Alexa away from London.

Instead, Anatoly ordered him to drive the car into a warehouse just across from the terminal where the Mekanik Rada was docked. It looked unused although there were a few opened cargo containers and boxes lying about. A portion of the roof had caved in and Mikhael could hear the sound of water dripping onto the ground below. Anatoly ordered Mikhael to stop the car.

"We part here, my friend," Anatoly suddenly said, opening the car door and dragging Nadia out of the back seat. He had gagged her mouth and secured her wrists with a plastic zip tie, and she yelped as he pulled her out of the car.

"Where are you going?" Mikhael asked.

"I will take care of Lucas North for you," Anatoly said.

Mikhael remained silent. He had never intended to kill Lucas but it was something he did not need to tell Anatoly. Anatoly was merely a hired assassin and someone that Arkady thought would be of help to Mikhael - why, even Mikhael didn't know, but he knew that Arkady didn't trust him anymore. Ever since that one night, he thought.

He'd been fortunate to have been given the opportunity to come to England through Arkady's connections. Even more fortunate to have been given Alexa as well. It was the only reason Mikhael had agreed to do the job. He and Alexa had some unfinished business to complete, whether she liked it or not.