Chapter 1013 - Two Bad News (1/2)

Marina Ivanovna Nikolaeva. Italian-Russian. The dead wife of General Nikolaev and the mother of Natasha.

On August 8, 2008, the Russian-Georgian war broke out. It was also the same day that Marina, who was engaged in intelligence gathering in Georgia, was found died by the Tbilisi police in the hotel she stayed at. Through the individual items in her suitcase, she was finally confirmed to be a Russian intelligence personnel.

Since the war ended in less than a week, the news was not disclosed. After the signing of the ceasefire agreement, the Georgian government returned the body of Marina to Russia with the remains of other Russian soldiers.

Eventually, Marina was buried with other Russian soldiers killed in Georgia in the Preobrazhensky Cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow. Nikolaev attended her funeral with Natasha, who was only 15 years old at the time. Since then, the relations.h.i.+p between them deteriorated.

The death of Marina was said to be due to a shot in the head, but there was no further evidence that could provide more information.

An entire day pa.s.sed since Natasha’s departure. When Ayesha reported the information to Jiang Chen, Jiang Chen frowned.

“Hated her father because of her mother’s death? I had always felt that there was something wrong with this explanation.”

“Maybe it’s due to the reason behind the death of Marina, ” Ayesha a.n.a.lyzed.

“You mean…Marina was killed by her husband Nikolaev? One is the commander of the 58th Army, and the other is the agent of the Russian Security Service. The work of the two are not in the same field. Did Nikolaev have a reason to do this?” Jiang Chen leaned back in his chair while rubbing his sore brows and said while easing a headache, “I’m the most curious about what the big bearded general thought when he found out he had a spy as a wife, especially a field agent.”

Ayesha walked behind Jiang Chen and placed her hands on his shoulders to gently ma.s.sage them for him, trying to ease his fatigue.

“Maybe, it is not his intention to marry Marina.”

Jiang Chen’s eyes lit up, but immediately turned dark and shook his head. “It doesn’t make sense. Nikolaev did not remarry. With his position, he shouldn’t have lacked pursuers. Unless he liked men, it makes no sense….”

With so little evidence, he was only sure that Natasha must have been tracking down her mother’s cause of death for several years, and this sudden disappearance was most likely related to it. As for whether Marina’s death was related to his husband Nikolayev, or what role Nikolayev played in her death, that all remained a mystery.

Enjoying the ma.s.sage of the two small hands on his shoulders, Jiang Chen closed his eyes. His fingers began gently tapping on the arm of the sofa.

“Will the clues be in Georgia?” Ayesha suddenly said. “If we send people to the hotel where the incident happened…”

“It’s useless, it’s been eleven years,” Jiang Chen shook his head. “It’s better to go to the local police station than go to the hotel, but I suspect that all the evidence and Marina’s personal belongings would have been transferred with her body after the signing of the ceasefire agreement. It is better to go to Moscow than to go to Georgia.”

“Then…”

“I know what you want to say, but I forbid you to do this. Our relations.h.i.+p with Russia is now in the honeymoon stage, and any miss step may cause misunderstanding and could be quite unwise.”

Jiang Chen hesitated, but in the end, he didn’t break out the news of Natasha’s disappearance. Disregard if the Russian Security Service would go deep into a foreign country to find a special agent who left her duty without provision, no one would be sure if the Freemasonry planted insiders inside Russia. Breaking out the news would increase her danger at the border.

As for how long he could keep it a secret, he’ll take it one day at a time.