ANKA
JAMIEJamie heard the click of the pistol first. Then the light switch. She raised her hands, slowly, before she turned.
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It had been a long, long play. In the movies, espionage happened at lightning speed. Not in the real world. Jamie Bond had spent a year of her life worming her way into Vasily Inchenko’s life. Russian oligarchs are very cautious, especially ones with Putin’s direct number in their contacts, under a different name, of course.
Jamie had put herself on the fringes of Inchenko’s lavish life in London. Her beauty was the bait, but it had to be his idea to take it. There was always the chance he wouldn’t, of course. But Jamie was among the best, and her bait was very, very enticing. After months of a slow spiral ever closer to each other, she and Vasily had become lovers. And once lovers, no man could resist Jamie Bond.
There was a persistent fly in this particular ointment, however: Anka Inchenko.
At first, it wasn’t anything specific to Jamie. Vasily’s younger sister was pure bitch. Anka hated all other women. But as Jamie watched, she realized that in this particular family dynamic, trying to win over Anka wasn’t the way forward; just the opposite. Vasily liked it when she would spite his sister rather than suck up to her. The night the two women nearly came to blows in a Soho nightclub, he had fucked Jamie like an animal. So Jamie walked the wire of simmering tension with Anka, slipping more and more close to Vasily.
So close, in time, that he had invited her to accompany him to this particular soiree. The house was a stone’s throw from Kensington Palace, a mansion built at the height of the British Empire but passing over time to the new money; first a Saudi prince and now an oligarch comrade of Vasily’s. One who, shall we say, did business.
The Russian ambassador made an appearance, but only a brief one. Things were happening there that night that made it best for those with official positions to be safely home in bed early. And that would turn out to be even so much more than he knew.
Jamie was gorgeous in black, a gown that cost MI6 five thousand pounds. Her jewelry was twice that. Her lingerie alone was three hundred. No male security force was stopping her; it was simple to convince the one who needed convincing that a surreptitious blow job upstairs was the erotic dream of a British socialite.
She was so close to the objective, the documents in the host’s safe. At least, she thought as she turned, it wasn’t the same guard. She’d left him very convinced indeed. This new one kept the pistol solidly against her spine in the plunging back of her dress. Vasily and the host were called away from the party to the next room. Anka invited herself along.
The guard was good. Who knows, maybe he even would have said no to Jamie’s inviting mouth. He only took a few sentences. When he finished, Anka slapped her, furious.
“English bitch!” she said. “I knew she was trouble!”
Jamie slapped her back. “Fuck you, Anka,” she said. When trapped, create chaos.
The host sighed. Vasily’s face, though, changed just a bit.
“Take her out of the city and kill her,” the host said. “Somewhere her body won’t be found.” He turned to leave.
“No,” said Anka. Her eyes were icy. “This - her - fucking you, you idiot - it is an insult that must be answered.”
Vasily’s eyes shifted to his sister. “Meaning what?” he said.
“Meaning no bullet,” she said. “Meaning her body is definitely found. As a message.”
The host paused at the door.
“My sister,” said Vasily to him, “has certain skills . . . and proclivities.”
Jamie knew. He’d told her, in bed. It excited him. Truth told, it had excited her, too.
Anka stepped to her. Face to face. Their breasts pushed together.
“We go back to the party,” Anka said, speaking to Jamie and Jamie alone. “And I will kill you with my bare hands while the guests watch. What do you say to that, English bitch?
Jamie held her hate-filled gaze. “Vasily,” she said. “What if I kill her?”
He spread his hands. “You did not get what you came here to steal. You know things, but not such dangerous things to me. And so I think - it’s fair - if you kill her, you go. No bullet in the back, I promise.” Coolly businesslike, but his erection was obvious. Quite the brother-sister relationship.
Jamie nodded, still gaze-locked with Anka. It was the best opening she would get. “Let’s fight,
cyka,” she said.
The host raised his eyebrows, and opened the door.