Book 2: In the Life of Mia: College Chapter 76
Billy kicked the bedframe and I finally opened my eyes and looked at him as he stood at the end of the bed with a gun in his hand now and looking detached. “Well if you are going to use it just do it already and make it count because the quicker you do it the better, we’ll both either be free or living in hell forever. Since I guarantee there is no one else that’ll be able to figure it out or help you if you do kill me” I slowly rose up not fearing him one bit now since I knew I was now onto something real and might just get us both out of the hell he was keeping us in. Billy turned the gun around and held it to his head and it got me to my feet. “OK…. Ok Billy…. You’ve got my attention…. You know you don’t want to kill either one of us. I said I would help you until the very end no matter how much time it took. Now you have to start to really trust me ok, because that’s the only way this is going to work and you need to keep an open mind too or you might as well give up on all of this!” I slowly stepped forward and he backed up keeping his eyes on me. I kept walking and once out the door he had backed right up into the wall trapping himself but keeping the gun on himself. “I just want the pain to stop… I am out of my mind again and every time I think we are on to something I start losing hope….” “Billy…. Calm down ok, I know how it feels to feel like you are losing control.. I fight every damned day to keep that feeling because if I don’t I’m afraid of what I might do” I confessed.
Billy put the gun down and holstered it back on his hip and looked in to my eyes really seeing me for the first time and seeing that there was something else there under the surface. “Come….let me show you what I found” I needed him to know I didn’t want him looking in any deeper than I would let him which wasn’t far at all. He took my hand before I could walk away, “Hey, sorry about all that….. I’m just it’s what I do and the gun to my head thing is about an everyday thing” he admitted which spoke volumes to me. “How are your ribs and your wound doing?” he asked since he had not helped me again after the first night. I pulled him along as I told him, “I’m going to be fine let’s just do this already because tomorrow’s Thanksgiving and even though I know I won’t be home for it I’d still like to make a feast for us here. Only if you are ok with that, I’d be more than happy to do it.” For the next few hours, I showed him what I had found and together we took a laptop each and dug deeper into this father and grandfather and why Russia would pop up on every site.
Boris was a man of many talents along with his father who went by Vladimir and Vittori and we were able to find out that there were suspicions of money laundering from Russia to America. “That asshole, he took advantage of his own son who was making a good name for himself and then he ended up getting my parents killed and for what… money that of course I now have…. Fuck I have no idea what I’m supposed to do now. How do we find all these people and now the list has doubled in the possibilities of who could have caused this? Now I have to look deeper into my grandparents deaths and how am I supposed to do that sitting here while what I need is in Russia and I haven’t been back in a few years now” he was all over the place telling me that he might have run away from there too for some reason or another. “Billy… we have to track every lead and we will do it I promise so how about we make lists of what we’ll need when we get to Russia and do you have a house there still or do we need to find one that is secluded and out of sight?” I asked wanting him to trust me enough to take my advice.
Billy froze when I suggested we even go to Russia, “NO… we are not going back there.. I left there for a reason and I am not about to go back now… that place was a nightmare for me and the only way I got out was.. my sister saying, I had died and finding someone to fake a death certificate and it was hell trust me” he was now in panic mode which could go either way for me. I wasn’t sure how I was going to get him to agree to flying to Russia and getting what we needed to put all the pieces together. “Well even if you asked your sister she wouldn’t know what to look for, I guess we could always hire someone to retrieve what we need. I mean I do know people who can keep a low profile and who won’t go running off to my security team or my family” I looked up at him from my seat knowing it was me who I was basically describing since I had the ability to do so, but was now forcing myself to do something that could potentially kill me. Billy shook his head, but I knew he was fighting with himself like I did so many times during the day just wanting to end this already and go back to my life.
Billy paced up and down the hall just outside the rooms I was going between since he was not sure if he could agree to what I was asking. “This person has no contact with your family or anyone else you know right….” he asked. I had to stand up as he kept fading in and out even though I heard what he said. “What… umm I mean yes he’s discrete and if you want I can or you can make a website that he can access from just a little message or I can send him the message from one of the burner phones which is just my signature so he knows who it is. We can make sure only he can access and that after he does each task we take down the site and put up a new one which is a project since I’m not that great with that type of stuff but from what I’ve seen you do I am sure you can do anything” I whispered when he stopped in front of me. Billy walked into the room and got to work on the website along with running down the number I gave him making sure it didn’t lead back to anyone on my team. “Ok it’s another burner phone so go ahead and do your thing while I finish up mine… and don’t do anything stupid or….” “Billy I am not going to hurt you so relax and I know it’s hard to trust anyone ok” I had cutti him off when I put my hand on his shoulder and felt his muscle bunch.
The burner number I gave him was to the one in my closet back home and no one would ever find it, but it was my only way to try and get him to trust me a little more. I knew that the only way to reply to the message that I sent myself was to find a way to really balance between both spots and then reply to his website as though it were someone I trusted. “Ok…. It’s done now how long does it usually take him to respond to a message?” Billy asked as he stood with his hands on his hips. I smiled not sure what else to do since he looked so cute and I pictured a little boy standing doing the same thing but, in a cape, wanting to save the world from the bad people. “Ummm sorry brain fart for a moment just you look so cute doing that and I am imagining you doing something similar when you were little and playing cops and robbers… umm if you ever did anything like that, that is?” I asked after seeing his face change and him, drop his hands.
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