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I narrowed my eyes at him. “What the fuck does that mean?”
He looked at Vanessa uncomfortably for a moment, and then his gaze flickered to Logan, who gave him a discreet nod.
“Will someone tell me what the fuck is going on?” I snarled. I wasn’t in the mood for their little club.
“Vanessa wasn’t always Vanessa,” he said, sliding his arm around her shoulders. “She was born Valentina Moskal.”
“So?” I snapped, growing frustrated.
“Her brother, Ivan, is one of the most feared bosses in Russia. We’ve been hunting him for years because he tried to kill her. We think he’s come back to the US.”
“Why?” Enzo interjected.
“Well, we’ve been working on intelligence that his right-hand man, Nikolai, was in prison alongside your father.”
Ella’s face drained of blood, and Logan immediately wrapped his arm around her, but she shot him an accusatory look over her shoulder.
“How is this relevant?”
“We think Ivan has been communicating with Salvatore via Nikolai.”
“You think Salvatore is staging a comeback?” Enzo cut in, edging closer to Brianna.
Lex nodded. “We don’t know anything for sure, but there’s been some signs. In New York last year, one of Salvatore’s underlings was trying to pull back some of the girls they lost from their clubs and ended up killing a bunch of them when they wouldn’t come back.”
“I read about that,” Cait murmured thoughtfully.
“They’ve been doing their best to fly under the radar but we’ve been watching them. And then when Nikolai got involved and you mentioned the deal was off between you and the Russians, it all started to come together.”
“So now they’ve killed my father to start a territory grab?” I asked, but it wasn’t really a question. It made sense.
Salvatore had been furious to end up in prison, and with his brother Emilio, his main competition, dead, teaming up with the Russians, who knew everything about us to squash us and take everything back… well it was a logical plan.
“So what do we do? We can’t just sit around and wait for them to pick us off,” Brianna said, and everyone’s eyes turned on me.
Of course.
I was boss now.
Cullen was gone, and I was in charge. I had to find a way through this mess for my family.
“Ivan is mine,” Vanessa… or Valentina, whoever the fuck she was said from the couch. There was a hard look in her eyes, a murderous glint I recognized well.
“I’ll bet it was Salvatore who killed Cullen…”
“But he’s still behind bars, isn’t he?” Ella looked fearfully up at Logan, and a guilty expression crossed his face.
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you. I didn’t want you to be afraid.”
She scowled at him, and Enzo looked just as mad that he’d been kept in the dark.
Jesus.
How many secrets were we keeping between us?
So Salvatore was out of prison and Ivan was in the country… we had to take them both down if we had any chance of stamping out the danger.
“Do you have any idea how many men Salvatore has?” If it was just a few, perhaps we could target a strike and take the whole lot out in one go.
