Free Do Or Die (Surreal Blue Rogue Agent 1) by E.R. Baine

around in
her mouth she screwed up her face. “Ugh, I have to brush my teeth.” She started
to push Viktor away when his arms tightened around her. He gave her a
smoldering look that made her heart lurch. Passion flared within her as its
unspoken meaning stoked her desire.
    He
lowered her to the bed. “Do you hurt?” His hands glided down the length of her
body, slipping beneath her sheer hospital gown. “Anywhere?”
    Audrianna
flexed, bucking her hips upward, her body like a bow. “No.”
    “I
know I should let you rest and take it easy. But I thought I’d lost you
forever. Good God.” Viktor passed his hand over her bare womanhood and cupped
her there. “I want to stick it in.”
    Bam! The
door swung open, slamming into the side of the wall. Xin stood in the doorway,
glancing from Viktor’s tight-lipped, accusing glare to the Audrianna’s
compromised state on the bed.
    “Viktor,”
Xin greeted him with a curt nod. “Mrs. Viktor.” He did not look at Audrianna’s
guilty expression.
    Audrianna,
unutterably embarrassed, covered her face with the pillow. In a muffled voice
she replied, “Daddy.”
    His
eyes locked on Viktor, he spoke sternly, “A word with my charge.” Xin stood in
the doorway, waiting.
    Incensed,
Viktor turned and walked pass Xin, who summarily kicked the door closed behind
him.
     
    Clear
blue skies in the distance met Viktor as he walked onto the third-floor balcony
of the hospital, which faced the yard’s entrance nearly one hundred feet away.
To his left was a small reception area. The desk was a semi-circular structure
painted a mild lemon yellow. The worn, marginally chipped counter top was
varnished cherry wood. An old computer and overly used red and blue ledgers
covered the desk. There were two uniformed nurses at the reception. One nurse
read the daily papers while the other rapped specifics over the phone curtly. The
atmosphere felt uneventful, a far cry from the drama that had unfolded hours
earlier.
    Viktor
walked a few steps away from the reception area to his left and kept to the
balcony overseeing the spacious, well-kept green lawn that extended fifty feet
towards the highway.
    The
calm, scenic view that greeted him did nothing to soothe his turbulent
thoughts.
    How
could I have let this happen?
    Viktor
reviewed in his head all the protocols he had created to protect himself and
his family from intruders such as Dr. Eli. Notwithstanding his obvious proclivity
to attract crazies who wish to test their might against his, Audrianna was a
different story. Obviously someone had sicced Dr. Eli onto his wife. Someone
who was aware of her status, but who? No one else knew of the power she
possessed but him, and Grigori.
    Grigori
was a loyal busybody who had served the Maxcks’ family for generations. It was
impossible to think of him as a traitor. No. Viktor’s features grew into a mask
of heated displeasure.
    His
familiars were mechanically loyal to him. The only other default option was
that someone had done their own research and zeroed in on Audrianna. Audrianna
herself could not have spoken of the phenomenon to anyone. The only other
person to have been revealed to the truth was dead.  
     Leaning
against the railing, arms crossed, he decided on a series of further measures
that would protect his wife. He smiled without mirth. They would probably anger
her as well…but Viktor wasn’t afraid of becoming necessarily rough with her in
order to secure her own protection.
    Lost
in his deep musings, he appeared not to have noticed Xin’s approach to his
side.
    “Don’t
you believe you are allowing the acquisition of self-blame go too far?” Viktor
sighed roughly, reaching into his pants pockets to remove his smartphone. He
entered the code to gain access. He then sent the private information he had used
to bargain with Xin for his help earlier.
    Xin’s
phone in his pocket made a corresponding sound, indicating it had received
Viktor’s text. Viktor then placed his phone