He lets loose a whistling sigh. “Gregor is not a man you can persuade easily, Daniil.”
“‘Persuading him’ isn’t high on my to-do list. I plan to tell him how things will be. If he doesn’t like that, I’ll smash his skull in until he starts to agree.”
“I don’t like this plan, Daniil. Not one bit.”
“I have to get my daughter back, Petro.”
“I agree. But this way?” he asks incredulously.
“Stay outside that house and don’t move.”
“Meh. Fine. Call me when—”
I hang up on him and turn the last corner. It’s a straight drive from here to the Semenov compound. The place that shaped my early years and everything that followed. I haven’t been back here in over a decade now. It feels…
The gates are closed. I park askew right in front of them and march over to the side gate in the corner. I don’t k
