“Before Aleksei gets back from the West Coast.” He’s all business now. Good. Business is something I can handle. “In that time, I have to figure out where he’s keeping Sage, how to extract him, and how to ensure Aleksei can never use him as leverage again.”
“That’s one hell of a wish list for a dead man,” I mumble.
Bastian laughs miserably. “I know where Aleksei’s men operate, all his little hidey-holes. But I don’t know which one has Sage. Al has been moving him every few days to keep me from tracking him down.”
“So we’re starting from nothing.”
“No, not quite nothing. I have a lead. But meeting him risks tipping off Aleksei that I’m not actually dead.”
“Three days for a wild goose chase,” I repeat as I think. Seventy-two hours to pull off what sounds increasingly like an impossible
