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“Fuck you, Ares!”
She smacks at my chest, pushes me to get off the bike. I just tighten my arms and hold her to me until she quiets. We sit like this for a while, her chest heaving and the tears flowing. I know she needs the silence so I let her have it.
I’m not surprised a girl with her smart mouth and spirit hasn’t found a man. Most walking dickheads don’t know what to do with a woman who knows her mind the way this woman does. Weak idiots. Knowing that weasel Jacob, she probably turned him down and he couldn’t handle the rejection. His retaliation resulted in her being shuffled off to auction.
Never in my life have I felt good about ending another person’s life. Until him.
Nova’s legs are spread over my lap. The wind has wiped her hair loose from her ponytail. I reach for a few strands and rub the soft tips together, considering my next words.
“Did Jacob ever suggest you two would be good together?”
Her brows bunch together over watery eyes. “What?” She peers out at the calm water for a moment and turns away from me I get to see a side of Nova I’ve never seen before. The vulnerable side. Quiet, pensive. Beautiful. I turn her to face me.
“Maybe, I don’t know.”
I wanna press my forehead to hers, breathe in her life force and feed her my own. The shit I’ve never wanted to do with another woman. She damn near has me wonder what we would name our kids. Suddenly it is killing me to know who took her virginity. What her life dreams are. Does she like the beach or love snow more? I hope the snow.
I stab my fingers through my hair and let the locks fall where they may.
I take her face in my hands and kiss her. Kiss her so hard we both come up gasping for air moments later. “You need to know I am not in the business of making friends with my enemies. And I have a lot of those. The Volkov brothers. Jacob. These are people who have done wrong to others and it will catch up to them. I’m the Devil’s assassin. Tonight was only Jacob’s turn.”
Moonlight catches on the daggers her eyes shoot at me. “And the Volkovs? How long before they pay for their crimes? How long do we wait? How many more will have to be hurt before you act? Why can’t we go to the police?”
“It will all work out as I’ve planned. But the last thing we need to do is bring the law in on this.”
“You’re so fucking arrogant it’s suffocating.”
“I am not arrogant. I’m a lot of things but not arrogant. Ruthless. Cutthroat. Savage. But not arrogant. That get’s people killed.”
“I beg to differ. You say it will all work out. Like it’s working out for my sister? Are you forgetting about her?
Finding out about her sister was an unfortunate turn of events. “Net, malyshka.But I can’t help her if it means putting hundreds of other girls just like her in danger. I lose my shit, go blazing in, take them down, how do I find out who their puppet master is? The guy putting up the money to make this whole operation work? Because I sure as shit know it’s not the Volkovs. They barely had a dollar in their bank account a few months back and suddenly they are flush?”
What I can’t say is I think the man involved is my father.
“They move to another city; the cycle starts up all over again and hundreds of other Novas and Polarises are stripped from their loved ones. So, no.” I say abruptly. “It ends here. In my city. My way. At my time.”
Consciously or not, her hands fall from my shoulders where she’s trying to push me away to settle over her abdomen. I imagine she’s thinking over the mantra branded into her skin.
I take her hands and place them back on my shoulders where she slips them under the leather of my cut.
“Don’t put this one on me. I don’t have anything to lose but my sister, Ares. I have to do what is best for her.” Her tone is quiet but her words are no less powerful.
“No one is putting anything on you,malyshka. We get back to the compound we have work to do. We have to do this my way. It’s the only way this will work.” I cup her face and take her lips in another hard kiss. I feel her stiffen around me, but her hands under my cut and her nails digging into my flesh send mixed signals.
I break the kiss and press my forehead to hers. Her sweet, hot, delicate appearance hides the steel will of a woman determined to save her blood.
She smacks me away and it’s fire and brimstone I see staring back at me. “Don’t fight us,malyshka. You won’t win.”
If I didn’t know any better, I swear I see fear lace with excitement in those pretty blues and it’s an irresistible concoction. And then she speaks.
“Like you biker types are so loyal to your women. I’m not a fast fuck, Ares.”
I level my gaze on her. “Net, you’re my bride.”
“You’re a real dick, you know. I’m not yours. Never will be. Now take me back. I have enough evidence to do what I need even without the surveillance video. You won’t move on the Russian brothers, then I will.”
“What do you mean?”
