Chapter Forty-Five
Twelve hours later
Vilnius, Lithuania
Sophia took a longer shower than usual, running the last five minutes with cold water. When she was done, she put a fresh dressing over the laceration on her arm and dug out a change of clothes. She left her compromised Kevlar vest on the bathroom floor. Her group didn’t have the latest Fifth Column tech, so everyone was still running outdated vests from local dealers. She didn’t need the protection as much as the others, but they’d have to buy fresh ones tomorrow. Even older generation vests didn’t come cheap.
Sophia slipped her lockpicks into the seam of her bra, and instinctively moved her hand to holster her pistol on her hip, only to remember she’d lost the weapon on the train, and the fingerprints she’d left on it. She l
