Page 25 of Mysterious Teacher : Arrival
“No. How dare you, feeble woman!”
No longer able to take his behavior, she lunged forward and slapped him as hard as she could.
“You!”he bellowed as he grabbed her wrist in a vice grip. “You dare to lay your hand on me!”
“Let go!”Sonya said as she struggled against his hold. She turned to April “Run. Get out!”
April hesitated a split second then ran out.
Fuming, Igor looked at Boris who calmly sipped his tea. “Idiot! Go after her!”
Boris, clearly comfortable in his chair, glared at Igor a moment before getting up and following his orders.
“Let go of me,” Sonya said as she continued to struggle against his hold.
“You talk too much, woman,” he said as he threw her into a chair. While holding her wrists behind her back with one hand, he whipped his belt off, wrapped it around her wrists and knotted the belt then ran it through the rungs of the back of the chair and knotted it again.
“This is pointless, you know,” Sonya said. “What do you hope to accomplish here in America? What plans can you possibly have that you need to do this to me?”
“Quiet, woman!”he said. “Your voice gives me a headache.”
“In that case, you are free to leave. No one asked you to come here.”
“I stay until I am ready to leave.”
Sonya noticed the sweat on his brow and the grim line of his lips. She couldn’t resist taunting him. “You do know that whatever you and your regime have planned, it won’t work.”
“Quiet.”
“You cannot achieve what America has.”
Igor stood up straight. “You.How did you figure out what I am?No matter.We Soviets will infiltrate America with the ideology we have.Who doesn’t like free grocery stores.Free busses, free healthcare, free rent, free food, free everything?”
Sonya huffed. “I think you greatly underestimate the extent of common sense Americans have.When you offer anything ‘Free’, we know there are strings attached.‘Free’ means essentially and eventually giving up your Freedom.The more ‘free’ stuff given, the more you depend on them, the more you become slaves to the system.Plus, Americans already enjoy freedom.We take pride in earning and paying for goods and services that we can choose to buy.Besides, where are you from?Russia, Germany?China?Right now, the world is poor because of the war.”
“It is not a joke!”Igor shouted. “We have gold. Lots of gold. Boris and I came across some Germans who said they buried Hitler’s gold with their own hands. It is what we...”
He suddenly fell silent and looked down at Sonya.
“You told me not to tell anyone about the gold,” Boris said as he entered the dining room.
“I know,” Igor hissed.
“But now, you just told her.”
“I know that, Boris! Where’s the young girl?”
“No one is supposed to know about the gold,” Boris went on.
Igor turned suddenly to face his partner in crime. “I know all of that, Boris. I know! Where’s the other girl?”
“I don’t know. The house is big. I couldn’t find her.” Boris looked at Sonya. “The problem now is that you told her about our gold.”
“That doesn’t matter. The female won’t live long enough to tell anyone what she knows.”
Sonya met his steely gaze. She’d never seen anyone with eyes so cold, so lifeless. What did he intend to do? Kill her right then and there?
“Watch her,” Igor told Boris as he walked out of the dining room.
