out. “He will have to l ie down in the back seat. He will draw too much attention otherwise,” she whispered back.
Mak watched as the female called Helene cleaned the area with clear expertise. His gaze swiveled back to the one called Natasha. She motioned for him to follow her. He moved quietly, pulling Tansy protectively against him as he let his own eyes scan the deserted streets. Natasha opened the back door and motioned for him to get in.
“You will need to lie down with her on top of you. It is the only way,” Natasha said looking around her instead of at him. “We have a fair distance to travel before it gets too light.”
Helene hurried forward opening the front and threw Tansy’s dark bag into the floorboard of the passenger seat. “Hurry, I hear cars coming,” she said.
Mak turned and sat down on the back seat. He turned Tansy until she was pressed chest to chest with him. He laid back and scooted until his head was pressed against the far door. Even so, he had to turn his legs at an awkward angle. With a growl, he realized he was far too large to fit into the seat lying down. With a curse, he sat up bending his head so it wouldn’t hit the roof.
Natasha shook her head while Helene just frowned. “Why did Cosmos have to send such a large bastard! Sit up but scoot down as far as you can. There is nothing we can do about you now. I will have to get another vehicle,” Natasha muttered in anger.
“On it,” Helene said pulling a cellphone out of her pocket and pressing a series of buttons. Within moments, she sat back with a grin. “One will be waiting for us on Kuzetzky.”
*.*.*
Natasha grunted as she slid behind the wheel and quickly pulled away looking in the mirror behind her. She took the first turn she came to before making a series of turns through narrow alleys and along more empty streets. She glanced in the mirror at the huge male sitting the back of the tiny Lada Priora. Cosmos had warned them that the man and woman they were going to be helping were very special. He forgot to mention the fact at least one of them weren’t fucking human. This was a first for Natasha and her sister. Both Natasha and her sister owed Cosmos a debt they could never repay. He had saved their parents and two younger brothers several years ago. He used his contacts, money, and expertise with computers to locate them after they had been kidnapped. Her father was a scientist for the Russian Institute of Research and Development. He was working on a highly secretive program for the government. When Natasha and Helene’s mother and little brothers were kidnapped and held in an effort to get her father to give copies of the research over to the American company wanting the technology, they did not know what to do. Her father, distraught at the loss of his family, had contacted Cosmos for help. Cosmos had met their father at a research conference. Cosmos was able to rescue their mother and brothers and exposed the company and the men behind it. The American government quickly moved in, shutting the company down. Cosmos used his resources to help their little brothers attend college in England while offering her parents a chance to work for one of the research companies he owned in Prague. Natasha and Helene had been attending college at the time in Paris and he assigned security guards to them. Since then, both of them had returned to Moscow and worked with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“Who are you and where are you from?” Natasha asked as she took another turn.
Mak reached into his pocket and pulled out the translator. Helene turned and looked at him suspiciously. He motioned for her to put it against her ear and press the end before handing it to her. Helene reached for the device. She carefully turned it over in her hand before glancing at the huge man who was hunched protectively over the woman in his lap. He returned her stare with steady silver flames burning in them. She slowly reached up and
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