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“I’m not going to pretend to be your friend or appreciate the fact that you are basically telling me what to fucking do. But I like your spunk, and considering there seems to be a threat possibly against my life, which I love myself, and my wife, I will accept you into my home for a time. But if you don’t have something to really fucking give me, expect to be fucking dead before the sun ever comes up again.”
Spoken like a true Clan leader. “Trust me, you’re not going to be disappointed.”
“Fine. Send me information about your location and the closest private airport. I’ll have a plane for you to take and bring you here to my place outside of Rio. And please, don’t bring that nut job Luca with you. I am the only crazy person here.”
I roll my eyes. You would think that the two of them would be friends considering they are both completely insane, but it seems like they are more like usurpers of each other’s territory. I text him immediately the location where I’m going to end up being. Then, I prepare myself for this meeting with Ivana and Galina. I’m not going to cry, I’m not going to frown, I’m not going to panic. These are the things I tell myself in my head, knowing that I will have a chance to break down afterward, once I’m on the private plane on my way out of here.
Once I’m as far away from Luca and his reach as fucking possible and the two Badescu women. I can be alone to fall apart over all the things I’ve been through. The roller coaster that has now replaced my heart and soul.
If I thought I was broken before, I was sorely mistaken. I was simply bored and trapped. Now, I’m fucking shattered.
When I get to the right spot, both Galina and Ivana are there. They seem to be bickering about something in hushed tones, but it seems less like some kind of issue with the Clans and more like a typical sibling spat. It’s good to see that they can actually act like humans in some way. And honestly, I kind of feel bad for Ivana in all of this. I feel she has been honest about the things she’s been through, and she’s being dragged around into this by her older sister, Galina. I wonder if Galina weren’t around if she’d even be going for revenge like this.
But it doesn’t matter. There’s no saving Ivana now, and I don’t want to even fucking try. I’m too concerned about saving myself, and the Clans. I can’t afford to get a bleeding heart now.
“There you are, bitch. So good to see you again. You’re going to fucking flip when you find out the plan. I think this is really going to work this time.”
“Shush,” is all Ivana says, looking around as if they are being listened to. But the thing is, this place is busy, and no one is paying attention to anybody else but themselves.
“Is that so? Because I don’t know about the two of you, but I’m so ready to get back at the Clans for allowing this kind of shit to happen to women, being sold off to these fucking alpha men like this. The only reason I can stand to be around my husband right now is because, number one; the sex is amazing, and number two; he’s at least kind of on my side here. He hates the Clans as much as I do for snubbing him all these years. But I tell you what, I’m not a woman to be tied down for very long.” All us bitches start laughing, and I know that I have struck a chord in the right way. This is easier than I thought; maybe my time in theoubliettehas taught me a little bit of something useful. Like how to pretend to feel one way when you feel another.
“See, I knew we were one and the same. So, let’s talk.”
Galina begins to talk in Romanian, and hopefully, no one around us can speak it. Looking around, I sincerely doubt it. It turns out, that these two women, the Badescu sisters, are worse than I even thought.
At first, there was something appealing about them. I felt like we were cut from the same cloth. Especially Ivana and I. And in another lifetime, maybe we could be friends. But now that I see the complete hatred in their eyes, a hatred that’s blind, and learn of the type of plans these girls come up with, I know that it’s never going to work. That I’ve chosen the correct side of things even if I don’t necessarily feel like the Clans are my family in any way. They’re just the only place I think I’m going to fit in now.
Galina is unhealthily obsessed with explosives. Evidently, she has had some training in this matter. Whether it’s because she’s watched online videos on the dark web or she’s slept with someone to gain the knowledge, I can’t tell. But she plans to infiltrate the event and blow it up. Plain and simple. Cut and dry.
The place is going to explode, and the three of us are going to be far enough away that we’re safe yet, close enough to watch it burn. To watch everyone die. Or at least, that’s what they think. I know now that I did the right thing calling Stefan. I think he’ll be able to come up with a plan crazy enough to stop these two without them finding out in time to rehash a new plan.
I leave them both with the promise that I will be there. We will all walk away from it together like all three of us are sisters as far as they know. But I am lying through my teeth.
Then, I get back in the car and make sure I take a roundabout way to where I’m going. To the private plane that’s going take me to Brazil. I don’t want there to be a chance that the sisters have some kind of surveillance the same way that Luca does. I doubt they have the same resources, but they have something.
And then, as I get on the plane and it takes off, I look at the window and say goodbye to the short life I had as the wife to Luca Ungur. I don’t know if anything we had is salvageable, or if we actually had anything at all. And it’s not like I enjoy being in theoubliette, or like I enjoyed being raped by his fucking “friends”. But I will never forget what it was like when it finally felt we were making love; what it was like to hear him call me his queen.
Maybe there will be one day where I can rip the scar tissue from my bones and my chest and be allowed to be someone’s queen. Maybe there is some Clan member out there that does want me for who I am.
I just pray that one day I’m able to give something back to them. That there will be a day when I’m not still hung up on Luca Ungur.
