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“Fuck yes.”
“Hell yeah, brother.”
“I’m ready to get back to my girl.”
“I can’t wait.”
The four of us say at the same time. I know being away from their better halves for months has been hard for them, but we needed to do this in order to keep them safe and get Rook back. I just hope he is still alive and Anya wasn’t playing me. I don’t think my brothers would survive that loss for real this time. Without a body we had a bit of hope but if we find him dead, Knight will lose control and Koby isn’t here to bring him back.
Anya
I refuse to sit like my father instructed, instead I stand here in a pair of Krill’s sweats that I’ve had to roll at the waist so they would stay up and a plain long-sleeve black top, that is miles too big for me, that he found in one of the changing rooms. Even after showering I still feel dirty, my skin feels like it’s crawling with bed bugs. I couldn’t stomach looking at myself for too long in the mirror. My fingers and toes are strapped thanks to Krill. The bruises and cuts that mar my body are covered thanks to the clothes I wear, but my face, no amount of makeup will ever cover that mess. Ivan and Alek stand behind Vlad. I refuse to even spare them a glance, I hope they rot in hell for what they did to me!
Vlad steeples his fingers together and rests his chin atop of them. “You could have avoided all of that if you had just did as you were told.” I fight the urge to roll my eyes, nothing I ever did for him managed to get me a free pass. “I want the notes and a full break down on the operation you run then… you’re free to go.”
“Y-you.” I stop and clear my throat, cringing. It’s raw and hoarse from the amount of screaming I have done. I learned from Krill that I was with Ivan for three fucking days. I managed to drink some water but still haven’t eaten a single thing. I’m dizzy, tired and want nothing more than to sleep for a week. “You want me to write down how I run the drug shipments?”
Vlad’s upper lip lifts in a snarl. “Yes.” I nod in understanding, so this is the reason why he hasn’t killed me. He needs to know how I do it before he kills me. “I want all your contact details and which flights you use.” I nod, going along with this bullshit—I’m never giving him that information. “Once that is finished, I want the name of who shot your cousin, the location of your…friendand his family.”
“Once I give you all of that, what happens to me?” I watch him carefully waiting to see the moment he lies because he will, he has lied to me every day of my life.
“You walk away and never come back.”
“You’ll let me go, just like that?” I push knowing full well there is no way he would ever just let mewalk away.
“Yes,” he grits out, this time I can’t contain the snort that escapes me. If I’m going to die tonight, it won’t be crying like a coward in the corner, it will be fighting till my last fucking breath. Vlad narrows his eyes in warning. I used to fear him, well not him directly–I feared him allowing Ivan to do what he did to me. I have nothing left to fear now. Ivan did his worst and I’m still fucking standing here.
“I always hoped and prayed that one day you would look at me like you look at Alek.” Vlad grinds his teeth but I push on, I’ve never spoken out of turn like this before but I refuse to die never having said my piece. “Did you ever for one second in my whole life, ever care about me?” I don’t give him a chance to answer. “I don’t think you did, because if you had, you wouldn’t have that fucking piece of shit that raped me standing beside you!” I scream. Vlad stands so fast that his chair topples over. I don’t think, I just act. I turn and grab Krill’s side piece from the band of his jeans, I’m too fast for him to try to stop me. I point the gun right at my father and relish in the shocked look on his face.
“Anya,” Krill says my name in warning but I ignore him.
“I won’t let you kill me without a fight!” I shout. I keep the three of them in my line of sight. “Any of you move and I swear on my mother’s grave I will kill you where you stand.”
“Your mother was a fucking whore–” A red haze overcomes me, I get tunnel vision and squeeze the trigger. The sound of the gunshot rings out in the room. Krill’s Heckler and Koch side piece packs a good kick back. Vlad cries out and grips his arm that I shot. Ivan and Alek both stand there with horrified looks on their faces, neither of them can believe I just shot my father. At the sound of shouts coming from outside the room, Krill rushes to the door and flips the lock. “You fucking bitch, you shot me!”
I glare at the bastard that gave me life. “Say another bad word about my mother, I dare you!” My voice is even and I’m so fucking proud of myself when my tone doesn’t waiver. I don’t know what the hell has come over me. Never in my life would I ever have the balls to speak to my father this way or ever dream about holding him at gunpoint, but I guess we all have our limits and I’ve reached mine.
“Put the gun down.” I dart my gaze to Alek, he looked so in control when I last saw him, albeit a little crazed since he was beating the shit out of me. Now, he looks spooked. “You know you won’t make it out of this room alive.”
“And who is going to stop me?” I spot Ivan moving his hand around his back and quickly point the gun at him, the pounding on the door doesn’t deter me. “Reach for that gun and I’ll put a fucking bullet in your head before you can blink.” His upper lip twitches but he doesn’t argue, he drops his arms back to his sides. Vlad drops back into his chair still holding the side of his arm. He’s a fucking hypochondriac, it was only a flesh wound, he’ll live.
“You have a choice. Put the gun down and I’ll make sure you die swiftly.” He doesn’t bother to elaborate on another option, we all know what that option would be. I would be given to Ivan. The pounding and shouts from the other side of the door grow more frantic, I didn’t really think this through.
“You have to make a call, they will break this door down, even if it is reinforced.” Vlad’s office has bullet proof walls and door, it will take them a while to break the door down which means I need to decide what the fuck I am going to do. “You and I both know that you don’t have theyatza’s(balls)to pull that trigger.”
“You have no fucking idea what I am capable of,father,” I spit the word at him like it’s acid. I decide to lay all my cards on the table for the first time ever, I have never told a single soul about what I have been doing. Now is the perfect time to let them all in on my little secret.
“You think you have what it takes to be me?” I smirk at my father, for a split second his mask of indifference falters.
“Don’t you know you should never doubt a woman with nothing to lose?” I run my gaze over the three of them, making sure they can see the hatred in my gaze and send them a dark smile. Ivan and Vlad look indifferent but Alek, he can see from the look in my eyes that I am about to shatter their world, he looks pale. “I don’t need to be you. I’m already better than you were and greater than you ever will be. Your captains put on a good show when I first got here, but did you ever ask yourself why none of them were able to find me while I was holed up in a cabin fucking Gage Matthews brains out?” Vlad’s eyes widen, Ivan the sick fuck smiles wide and it disgusts me to see pride in his eyes. Alek shakes his head trying to deny what I am saying but he can’t.
“My men are fucking loyal to me!” Vlad roars.
“Oh, papa, your menwereloyal to you. Their allegiance changed the moment you started trafficking members of their families and dragging their sisters, wives, daughters and mothers into your red rooms of fucking pain and raping them!” I’m screaming now but I don’t give a fuck. I’m well past caring because I am going to kill the three of them before I walk out of this fucking room. I am the only person who can get close enough to do it. “All I had to do was whisper a few things in their ears and they promised to back me when the time came for me to dethrone to Pakhan.” Vlad’s eyes are wide with panic. “I may lose all the holdings you have in the businesses and political backing but I don’t need it,Ihave the Bratva.” I didn’t have enough time or pull to get to any of the political leaders but I can worry about that later, same with the businesses. We’ll take a huge loss but we can rebuild in time.
I’m too focused on watching my father’s reaction to my declaration that I don’t see Alek pull his gun. It’s like everything happens in slow motion. I turn to him and pull the trigger the same time he does, my scream rents the air before I drop to the ground like a sack of shit.
Gage
