All Chapters of Crave The Enemy : Chapter 71 - Chapter 73

Chapter 71Sasha's PovI should have said no.That's the thought I woke up with. I should have said no at the door, sent him back downstairs, told him to get a hotel. I had seventeen reasonable things I could have said and I said “take your coat off”, which is arguably the least reasonable of all of them.He's asleep on the sofa.I can see the back of his head from the kitchen doorway. He's on his side, one arm off the cushion, the blanket I gave him pulled up to his jaw. He's been asleep since midnight. It's half past six now.I make coffee and I don't look at my arm.He wakes up while I'm going through the Bratva documents at the table. I hear him shift, then sit up, then a sound that's almost a groan, because the sofa is not long enough for him and his back is going to tell him about it."Morning," he says, voice thick."There's coffee."He gets up slowly, comes to the kitchen and pours a cup. Leans against the counter exactly the way he did in my kitchen two days ago and looks at

Chapter 73Sasha's PovGdansk in November is exactly as unpleasant as it sounds.We're parked on a service road running parallel to the eastern dock gate. The manifests Gregor sent matched three specific freight containers routed through this port in the last six weeks. Two of them have already moved. The third is scheduled for loading at two in the morning.It is currently half past midnight."Tell me again about the subsidiary," I say.Nico shifts in the passenger seat. He's been holding his coffee for twenty minutes without drinking it, which means he's thinking. "Vescari Maritime Solutions. On paper it's a legitimate freight company, registered in Malta. In practice it moves product through three Baltic ports on rotation. The route variation makes it harder to track pattern." He pauses. "My father set it up eight years ago. I inherited oversight of it when I took over.""Does anyone else have access.""Two people. My logistics head and his deputy." He looks at me. "Both have bee