Chapter 82 Katerina

• "Here we are," Yevgeniy says as we approach a solid white door at the bottom of a set of stairs. The house has two levels visible on the outside; you'd never know there was a basement at a glance. Yevgeniy stares over our heads at Osip and Fyodor. "Fyodor, you stay here. Osip, go check on how the clean-up is going."
• "Ah, pakhan, I don't want to go back there," Osip grumbles. "It's disgusting. All that blood."
• "What blood? What clean-up?" I ask anxiously.