I gave the phone to my cousin. “I need it asap.”
This was all we needed. It wasn’t that death bothered me; it was the clean-up afterwards that was the issue.
“We need to move fast,” Leo said. “He might have backup coming.”
“Search the cabin,” I instructed. “We’ll tell his brother he must have run. That Kaspar must have been the guilty one. If we act as though we haven’t spoken to him, and we accuse Rasmus of covering for his brother, of giving him a warning about our arrival, maybe he’ll believe Kaspar had simply made himself scarce.”
I didn’t want to get into a war with the Estonians for this. I had enough to deal with back home. And we still didn’t know for sure who’d switched out the money.
“What do we do with the body?” Sly asked.
I glanced around at the expanse of pine, spruce, and birch. “We’re going to need to take it out into the woods, as far from here as we can get it. Hopefully, the wild animals will take care of the rest.”
I used my phone and called Rasmus. “You warned him, didn’t you? Where has the son of a bitch gone?”
“He’s not there?”
“No, we arrived at the cabin. All the lights are on, but your brother is missing.”
There was a pause on the other end of the line. “That can’t be right. Kaspar wouldn’t do that.”
“I don’t know your brother, but him bailing on speaking to us makes him look dirty as hell. I think you found your weak link. I assume we’re not the only people you’re doing business with. If this is something he planned for more shipments, you should be thankful that you had reasonable men the first time around. The second time could get your entire team killed.”
I hung up before he could get another word in.
I could tell he wasn’t completely sure what to think. It must have crossed his mind that we’d killed Kaspar. Well, Sly had killed Kaspar, but since I was the one who’d brought them here, I had to take responsibility.
Addressing my cousin and brother, I said, “Let’s clean up the blood and find something to bundle him up in so we can protect the car, and then we’ll dump the body.”
Chapter Fourteen
Hallie
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JODIE TURNED OUT TObe great company. She took my mind off worrying what the men were up to, even though she must have been worried as hell about Leo. We were already several cocktails into our drinking, and our conversation had gone from polite to raucous. Before I knew it, we were discussing which celebrities we fancied and comparing sex toy recommendations. I had no idea what the time was, but it didn’t look as though the hotel bar was going to be closing up anytime soon.