Chapter 54

"You failed," Dimitri snapped at Luis Silva. Luis, the battle dragon of the Silva family who controlled most of Brazil, curled his lips in a challenge. He slammed his hands down on Dimitri's desk. Dimitri looked at those hands, unimpressed by the cracks they'd made in the wood finish.

"Last night wasn't my fault," Luis said. "Those bullets you provided me? Completely underpowered."

"That is the nature of a subsonic silenced pistol," Dimitri countered. He'd overestimated this man's intelligence. "You didn't want to attract attention to yourself, now did you?"

"Yes, but to do it right, I'd have to go right up to him and shoot him point-blank. You think I'm going to do that in front of security cameras?"

"And what the fuck were you doing shooting up one of the nicer hotels in Moscow in the first place? You were supposed to take care of it from the shadows, not in the limelight. Don't make me regret this alliance, Silva."