Chapter 57
Day two. The funerals were scheduled for day five, giving them three days to figure out who was behind the threat. Three days to catch a killer who thought they'd already won.
"We need to draw them out faster," Alexei said at the emergency strategy meeting. "Waiting for them to make a move gives them time to consolidate power."
"Then we give them an opportunity they can't resist," she said. An idea was forming, dangerous but potentially brilliant. "We announce that I'm taking over Adrian's operations. That I'm vulnerable, grieving, desperate for allies."
"Absolutely not," Viktor said immediately. "You'd be painting a target on your back."
"I already have a target on my back. This just makes it bigger and more obvious." She looked at Dmitri. "Can you set up a meeting? Somewh
