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Unfortunately, when I rose on my tiptoes and kissed him again, I realized that he had already made me want to live.
Fuck.
Chapter 15
Gabriele
It took me a little over two months. Only two months to ruin Aleksei Smirnoff and his inner circle.
I had gained many more enemies, but I also gained respect both in Cosa Nostra and outside of it. They saw that I was not just lucky. I was the guy who ended the Five Families, and I was the guy who ruined the Bratva. And with Salvatore Vasile’s win in Chicago, Russians were really getting into the dangerous territory. It was perfect timing.
I didn’t openly accept I was the one who killed Ivan Borisyuk, but I also made sure everybody knew it was me. Aleksei knew I had Kira, and after Ivan’s death, he realized that I didn’t have any intention to give her back. That made him go feral. That made him make mistakes.
The funniest thing was that he couldn’t even attack me because of it. He tried little attacks here and there, but they were nothing to worry about. They were not important enough for me to leave Kira’s side. Throughout the most, Roberto and Michele dealt with them because I wanted to spend all my available time with Kira. I didn’t have the luxury to lose any of it.
We couldn’t leave the house much because of security reasons. I knew Aleksei still wanted her because it turned out she was much more important than just casual fun. She was something they shared. Kira was something that kept their bond strong.
To me, though, she was an amazing woman who was slowly healing. Maybe too slow for my liking, but she was getting better. She was smiling more and more every day.
She didn’t even mind staying at home much. We did go out a few times, though. I took her out to dinner a couple times. We went to one of my restaurants and ate in the VIP lounge. We also once went to the Hamptons for a night with Priscilla. I still couldn’t forget how she smiled as she ran along the beach or how we made love in the sea under the moonlight.
She seemed shy to try new things but, with a bit of encouragement, always told me what she wanted. She wanted to discover everything. It was all new to her with the aspect of consent. I could tell how much she enjoyed doing the things she liked. And I was more than happy to give her everything she wanted.
I made love to her every night, and every night it was better than the last. She still looked at me with amazement, like she could still not believe how sex could be this good. And she still talked Russian when she was lost in me. I loved all of it. I loved everything about her.
Still, it didn’t feel enough. At this point, we were acting like a married couple, but now and again, she would talk about our agreement. Every time I won a small war against the Bratva, she would remind me at the end of this, I had to kill her. I would shut her up with kisses every time, but my heart still ached with the truth.
It didn’t matter how happy I made her. Kira still wanted to die.
And there was no way I could kill her.
Maybe I should have been slower to attack the Bratva, but Aleksei just made my job too easy. It was all simple tactics I used with the Five Families. I wanted them to fight with each other so they wouldn’t have time to stop me, and they would even weaken themselves with the fight.
After Ivan’s death, I was ready for war. It was a risky move but risking war for Kira was just too easy for me. But I didn’t get my war. Aleksei needed a new Consigliere before he attacked me, and that started the first bit of chaos between him and the remaining two members of his inner circle.
His cousin Fedor Smirnoff and his brother-in-law Kirill Nikolayev got into a big fight for the spot of Consigliere. Both were close to him, and both had good last names. It was such a great shit show that I didn’t need to leave Kira for a whole week.
One night that week, when I was holding her naked body to mine after sex, she asked me about it. We made a deal that I was not going to tell her anything until she asked because I didn’t want to make her upset. But she asked what was happening. And I told her.
Kira said that it wouldn’t go this long if she was there. Of course, they didn’t ask Kira’s opinion or anything, but she was their buffer. She told me when there was a fight between them, she would take the worst of their anger. They would hurt her back to back and magically make peace between them.
That made me furious. I kissed her a million times that night to make sure she was with me now. Those assholes were never going to touch her again.
She wasmine.
Until the day I was going to have to let her go.
I didn’t want to think about that. But I also knew I had to tell her. I had to tell her that my job was done. They were not dead, but they were ruined; that was what I promised Kira. I wanted to kill them when she told me stories about her past, but I knew killing them was not the solution to her problem.
Giving Kira my love was the solution.
Still, I didn’t let them get away with what they did to her.
After the shit show week Aleksei made Kirill Nikolayev his Consigliere. This made him have a beef with his own family. His uncles were furious, but at least he had his father-in-law’s approval. He needed that because Daddy Nikolayev had enough power to push him off.
That Consigliere fight also put the Smirnoffs and Nikolayevs into a fight too. That was what I did best. Making big families fight. It would have been fun to watch. I could just attack his territories while they were busy with each other.
But I needed more.
