Chapter 9We found ourselves in a jail cell of sorts a moment later. In fact, it was nothing more than a blink later. Genie’s brother’s blink, actually. We were still naked, still prostrated, only now in a room carved out of rock, and one with wooden bars, a meager torch down a hallway our only source of light.
“Oh, f**k,” Yuri said.
“You already said that,” said I.
He punched my arm. “Yeah, Paul, I know.”
We all flipped around, now ass to floor, our knees bumping, seeing as the cell was on the small side.
“And what did he mean,” Luke said, “about the man he was warned about?”
Yuri nodded. “How could he know about you? And how did you know him, anyway?”
My heart again pumped in my chest, threatening to punch right on through. “I thought it was fate,” I said. “I thought it was. I was
