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“What?” I said, panting and digging into his shoulders.
“You can’t scream.”
It was too late. He rode me to the edge and drove me over, and the sound was already coming out. He smothered it with a kiss, moaning into my mouth as he came inside me.
“Damn it,” he said again, his face pressed against my shoulder as his movements slowed. “We forgot a condom again.”
“Next time,” I told him, trying to catch my breath through the aftershocks. “And the time after that.”
We were in love. We had lots and lots of time.
Chapter 28 - Mikhail
I woke up before the birds and left as silently as a thief from my own house. I had a job to do, and I wouldn’t rest until it was done to my satisfaction. Evelina and Leo could crow all they wanted about destroying the Novikoffs in their own way, but I was old school. Digital revenge wasn’t enough for me. I needed this finished.
As soon as Evelina was asleep, I searched through her files, finding the name of the elusive Novikoff head, then alerted my driver and bodyguard to be ready. Then I curled up by my love for the hour before I had to leave for New York.
Once there, it was easy to find him. Half his organization was already arrested, the rest scrambling and divided, and my clever girl drained his coffers. All he had left was his luxurious high-rise apartment downtown. He had two guards outside, and I decided to be fair and offer them a choice. Switch allegiances and live or go out defending a dead man.
“Because your boss is going to die today,” I told them, training a gun on one while Andre covered the other.
One dropped to his knees and begged for his life. He was currently on probation. Time would tell if he could be trusted to work for Evelina or not. The other one, I had to put a bullet through his heart. His choice, not mine.
Andre kicked down the door and stood back while I dragged the man from his satin sheets and tossed him into the kitchen, where the floor was tiled. No reason to make things difficult for whoever owned this place next.
“You need to apologize,” I said.
Despite being in his underwear and on his knees, he looked at me with defiant hatred in his eyes. The feeling was mutual. “For what?” he spat.
I leaned over and grabbed his greasy hair, slamming his head into the granite counter. “You put a hit on someone.”
“I put a hit on a lot of people,” he said.
I slammed his head again, this time harder. He blinked and looked like he might pass out. No, I couldn’t have that. He needed to be aware that he was about to die. “This is the first one on someone I care about.”
“Go ahead and shoot me. The crazy bitch already took everything I own.”
I slapped him enough to insult him. “Watch your mouth about the woman who brought you to this position right now. On your knees, about to die. Ruined.”
I cocked my gun, and for the first time fear entered his eyes. He thought I was bluffing up until now. But I wasn’t.
“Look,” he said. “Let’s make a deal. I still have holdings up in Boston.”
I casually checked my phone while still keeping the gun trained on his forehead. “Probably not anymore. Evelina was working on those before she went to sleep last night.”
Now that was a bluff, but I had no doubt she would soon have everything under her control, and I wanted him to be good and sorry when he left this earth. If not about what he did, then about what he lost. When he started sniveling, I finished him. I wanted to get back to the woman I loved.
Andre and I wrapped him up in some plastic we found in his own closet and drove him in his own car to one of the bars that Evelina had under surveillance. It was the one that this very man used to hold meetings with his underlings and the one she wanted to use when she took over his operation. There was no doubt in my mind that she could do it, but I hoped to change her mind and choose a different path.
We dumped him on the stoop before it opened. It didn’t matter who found him or when. He was gone; that was all that mattered. And Evelina would see it.
“What now, boss?” Andre asked after we left his car in Queensbridge Park.
“Stay and have a little fun if you want,” I said. “I’m heading back to Miami as soon as I run a quick errand.”
We shook hands and parted like any ordinary businessmen after a breakfast meeting. I caught a cab and instructed the driver where I wanted to go, my mind already on getting back to Evelina.
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