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As the fury settled in my gut, I rasped out, "Who touched you? O'Donnelly?"
"NO! OMG," she sputtered, back in English this time. "Never! Brennan would never hurt me.Ever. I can't believe you'd think that—"
"Then, who?" I growled, my other hand balling into a fist that I clenched so hard, my knuckles popped.
"A boy in my class."
"He's one of us?"
She sniffled. "Yes. That's why I didn't go to Brennan. He wouldn't... couldn't... Not without starting—"
I gritted my teeth. "Who?"
"His name's Timofai Stepanov."
Of course it was.
Stepanov.
The bane of my fucking life.
I’d been ruling over my men in a way that was politically wise until this point, but that had just shifted a gear.
Seething, I growled, "No one will ever call you a whore or touch you against your will, Victoria, not while I'm alive."
She swallowed. "He's only sixteen, Maxim. You can't cut off his head too."
"Watch me," I snapped.
"No! He's just a boy. H-He's no one. It was stupid. I should never have called you."
"Youshouldhave called me. This is the only reason we should be talking, Victoria. I know you're curious about me,katyonok, but you're too young to speak with me unless it's about something important like this."
A breathy sigh escaped her and she admitted, "I like your voice."
Whatever the fuck I thought she'd say, it wasn't that.
"My voice?"
"Mama was from Moskva. You have the same accent."
Skotina, I was comforting to her?
Suddenly exhausted, I scrubbed a hand over my face. "I'll deal with the boy, Victoria."
"Please, don't kill him."
That she pleaded for his life pissed me off more than it should.
Through gritted teeth, I demanded, "Which hand did he use to touch you?"
"It was just a little touch," she tried to wheedle.
"So little that you decided to call your personal boogeyman in to make it right?" I half-taunted. "You knew what would happen when you called me, Victoria. Which hand?”
Rage throttling me, my fist shot out, and before I even realized what I was doing, it collided with the mirror to the side.
As the glass shattered, she yelped, "The left one. What was that noise?"
