Page 48 of Her Selfless Warrior (Omega Sky)
“I do. Remember, I might have spent most of my life in the States, but I lived in Russia during my formative years. We’re a superstitious people,” Kostya said with a small smile.
Gwen gave him one last lingering look, then nodded her head and turned back toward the whiteboard. Kostya went over to meet with Gideon.
“Give me some good news.”
Gideon’s smile was huge. “Grigor’s computer is connected to the main server that is pouring all of its information to the database that goes to Moscow.”
Kostya waited. He knew damn good and well that there had to be more, otherwise Gideon wouldn’t have a shit-eating grin on his face.
“Well?” Kostya asked.
“It’s kind of interesting that there’s a computer registered to someone who doesn’t seem to be here, and when I dug deeper, that person was reassigned eight months ago to a project in Kazan, but they’re still logging into this computer every day.”
Kostya felt his own shit-eating grin coming on. “Let me guess. Because everybody in Moscow knows that this person no longer works here, they don’t expect it to be connected to the server.”
“You’ve got it.”
Kostya turned around and saw that Ryker was still holding Grigor. “McQueen, let him down, Gideon has a few questions for him.”
* * *
“She didn’t lie,I found the communication that proves supplies were supposed to come in yesterday,” Gideon said when he found Kostya in the lounge area. Kostya stepped away from Nolan and gave all of his attention to Gideon. “Is that all you’ve got for me? What about Grigor’s information, it’s been over twenty-four hours.”
“I’m almost there, but this is more important. We’ve got a situation on our hands. It’s bad. They planned to be trading out personnel; three security and two computer programmers along with food supplies. They’re bringing it all in via another Vityaz and they’ll be escorted by a tank.”
“Were they coming out of St. Petersburg? If so, they must have been slowed down because of the weather.”
“Agreed,” Gideon nodded. “What has me most concerned is that the snow has slowed down a lot, and according to all the reports it will stop in twelve hours. People, including the supply vehicle, will be calling in. You or Doctor Lord will have to be available to take those calls.”
Kostya took a look around the common area at all of the people who were restrained. He’d been worried about leaving them in the forest to die since some of them were just tiny little cogs in the wheel. Now they had a solution.
“No, Gideon, we need to have to be long gone by then. Start pulling everything relevant into the Vityaz, and I mean everything—computers, backups, any kinds of notebooks. I want you to confiscate phones, you got me?”
Gideon nodded.
“Then all of the other things that are connected to this project are to be gathered up and put into the other outbuildings.”
Gideon started to slowly smile.
“Boss, are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
“Depends.”
Ryker came up from behind him. “Please say that I can go play with Linc and use some Semtex. This shit is just evil. Growing organs in a lab just so they can come up with ways to starve people, starve Americans…” Ryker held up his hands and his voice trailed off. “I know we’re not going to get to blow up anybody, not even that bitch Anfisa, but please tell me everything else is going up in smoke.”
Kostya sighed. “Am I that easy to read?”
Gideon and Ryker shook their heads.
“No you’re not,” Gideon said. “It’s the situation that’s easy to read, it’s what we all want.”
“Gotcha,” Kostya sighed. “Gideon, how much of this shit has made it to Moscow? We’re not doing any good if they can replicate it again.”
“I pulled up the data that was sent. According to Doctor Lord, it wasn’t the vital formulas. As a matter of fact, it was early in the process and it was so far wrong that Moscow will be chasing their tails for quite some time.”
Kostya rubbed the back of his neck. Grigor was the real problem; he needed to be neutralized.
“How soon can you get this done?” Kostya asked.
