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Needless to say, it was useless, and after that, I damn near lost my mind trying to find her.
I searched for her everywhere. I stalked her flat and even hired a PI to look for her.
Not only that, but I was on Chris’s and Gwen’s case since they were close to her, but even they had no idea where she went. However, she left them notes, ones where she apologized and wished them well.
I got no such note.
And I might have been extra hard on Chris for no apparent reason that day.
So after her complete desertion, this is the first time I might have a lead, even if it’s coming from the little bastard, Daniel.
“Spill it,” I say.
“Repeat that again and add a please.”
“Fuck you, Dan. Now, talk.”
“You’re a bloody idiot and a sorry cunt. I just want to put that out there.”
“Any day now.”
He raises a brow. “You also realize that there was something wrong with your win, don’t you?”
“How do you know that?”
“Anyone who watched the case closely would know that Matt is no longer theBratva’s favorite boy and if you think that happened by coincidence, you’re way off the mark. In fact, the last person you’d expect helped you.”
“Who do you mean?”
“Anastasia.”
“What does she have to do with it?”
“She asked me not to tell you since you were in danger, but I don’t see why I should keep it from you now.”
“Keep what? And stop the suspense bollocks.”
“She’s a mafia princess. The daughter of the Russian mafia’s leader in New York, to be more specific.”
The information should reel me off my axis, but it doesn’t. If anything, the pieces of the puzzle slowly come together.
Whether it’s the way she ran away from her past and avoided it or how she didn’t want to talk about her family. There’s also the makeover and the way she seemed innocent yet dangerous that first day.
All of it.
She was a woman with baggage from the beginning and I knew it. I think I actually fell for it at some point.
So finding out that she has ties to the mafia makes complete sense. The guard who followed her makes sense, too. The fact that Daniel couldn’t find anything on her when he did a background check is plausible, too. He must’ve done a paperwork, superficial one, but even if he dug deeper, she had the skills to hide her skeletons.
That woman had a double life, after all.
“What do you mean, I was in danger?” I ask Daniel.
“You were snooping around inBratvabusiness and hurting their associate, so the higher-ups threatened her with your life. They even told her to betray you, but she chose the third option.”
“To go back to them.” I don’t phrase it as a question, because I know that’s what she did.
She hurt me on purpose with the whole Daniel thing so I would forget her and not search for her.
