"What's your plan, Viktor?" Drakon said, stepping forward with his hands resting casually near his belt. "You know I'm not caving on her."
Viktor raised his hands in a calm, placating gesture, a twisted grin spreading across his face. "That's why we're here. You can kill those two right now," he added, pointing to the two kneeling Vipers between them. "I will still pay you for your troubles no matter the amount. If you just give me her head."
"It's tempting. It really is," Drakon said, his tone dripping with dark amusement. "But you don't have the manpower to come up against us."
While they talked, I slipped back out of my tree cover, pulled out my suppressed sidearm as I looped deep behind Viktor’s perimeter lines. Three of his guys were crouched in the thick underbrush behind Viktor's
