Chapter 59

**Lev**

Many years ago, on the Odessa docks, Dmitri was hired by a private security firm to keep a shell company’s shipment quiet. I was there to make sure it wasn’t. The job went wrong fast, someone lit the fuse early, and the whole pier turned into a splintered cathedral of fire. I took shrapnel up under the ribs, but I stayed moving because that’s rule one. Then my hands went stupid on the ladd