Chapter Four
Valentina and Yuri climbed up the hill toward where they’d left Dmitri and stashed the speeders. Sergei emerged from the shadows. “Are you all right, Valechka? What happened?”
“We almost ran into Lena and Ivan on the way back, so we had to go a different direction,” she admitted, stepping over some debris. “Apparently, the two of them have been sleeping together and decided to use this camp as a meeting place. That’s why security is tighter than we expected.”
“At least I’m not the only one having their evening interrupted because of clandestine meetings,” Yuri muttered.
“I offered to bring Brant with me instead,” Valentina reminded him.
When Yuri grumbled something derogatory under his breath about Dmitri and Brant, Valentina decided to ignore him. “Ivan’s having problems
