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My hands flexed at my sides. I hated he referred to her as Smirnoff’s mistress. I would probably get angry at that even if shewashis mistress, but she was not. She was his captive.
Not anymore.
I tried to shake off Michele’s word choice and focus on the plan I had in mind. “It was the first step. Kira knows them well. She is going to be helpful while I do that. And her absence will be beneficial for us.”
“Why?”
“Not important.” I was determined to keep Kira’s secret. “Kirill Nikolayev, Fedor Smirnoff, and Ivan Borisyuk” I counted the names Kira told me.
Michele thought for a second. I could see that he was trying to remember all of them. After that, his brown eyes turned back to me. “You think without them, he will fall.”
Not quite. “I am saying if we ruin them, we will ruin Aleksei Smirnoff.” I wanted him to lose power, to live in chaos. I wanted him to be ruined by his own people.
This put a devilish smile on my brother’s lips. “Do you have a plan?”
I mirrored his expression. “I do. We need to create even more chaos.”
Chapter 8
Kira
I took a bath today too. I was never much of a bath person because I usually wanted to wash all the touches away from my body. I didn’t have that urge now because no one had touched me for two days.
No. Gabriele did touch me.
But no one raped me for two days.
I didn’t know there was even such a thing as a nice touch. The last person who touched me innocently was my mother.
I went two days without being raped before, too, but it didn’t feel like this. I never felt safe because I always knew if they wanted to, they could change their mind at any point. But now, it was different. Gabriele was going to hurt them, and then he was going to set me free.
I could already taste the heaven.
If there was a heaven for people as dirty as me.
I didn’t care. Even hell would be better than what they did to me.
“Kira.”
My eyes opened to the newly familiar voice. I was probably too peaceful to hear him unlocking my door. He was in my bedroom. He gave me my privacy. I didn’t care if it was just the bare minimum for everybody else. It was special for me to be treated like a real person.
“I am taking a bath,” I said very easily because I knew he was not going to take that as an invitation to join. He was probably going to talk to me about Aleksei. Maybe he had more questions. I should have hurried and got out.
He didn’t say something like that, though. He just asked, “What do you want to eat?”
Oh.
It was time for dinner. He was asking me what I wanted.
How simple.
How amazing.
“I’ll eat whatever you want,” I called back and started scrubbing myself so that I could be ready for dinner. Having dinner at home with someone was so strange to me. I loved it. I loved how he acted like we were just… a couple? Or maybe roommates? Just two people living together. So ordinary.
“Okay,” Gabriele said, and I heard him leave the bedroom.
I finished bathing fast and got out of the bathtub. I dried myself and got dressed in the sweats and t-shirt I brought inside. Aleksei never let me get dressed in the bathroom, and it always made me feel so insecure. I liked this small freedom.
