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Chapter Thirty
Zane
Intheearlyhoursof the morning, I rolled over and reached for Katya, but felt nothing but cold sheets and an empty bed.
Frowning, I pushed myself up onto my elbows, and was about to call out to her, when the words got stuck in my throat. I felt the chilling weight of something pressing into the side of my temple, and before I even turned to look, I knew it was a gun.
But who the hell is on the other side of it?
I slowly moved so that I could see who was in my room, pointing a lethal weapon at my face, and wasn’t really all that shocked when I saw that it was Aleks. I knew I had to tread carefully, so I cleared my throat and scooted back on the bed. “How did you get in here?” I asked.
Chuckling, Aleks replied, “It’s pretty easy Pretty Boy. All I had to do was flirt with one of the maids. You’d be amazed what kind of information you can get by talking to a girl who's been working all day and is looking for a little sympathy.” He grinned. “I asked her what room you were in, and she sang like a canary. Then I nabbed her universal key card, and here we are.”
“What do you want?”
“You know what I want.” He moved closer to the bed and held the barrel of the gun just inches from my face.
“Is the gun really necessary?” I asked. “Can’t we just have a normal, civilized conversation?”
In a voice full of hatred and disdain, Aleks clearly stated, “Shut the fuck up and tell me where Katya is. And don’t lie to me you piece of shit.”
“Aleks, calm down. I honestly do not know where she is.”
“Liar.”
“It’s true! She was here last night, but I woke up and she was gone. What do you want with her anyways?”
“It’s none of your business.”
“It might be,” I said.
He made a face. “Why because you’re the newboyfriend? What the fuck do I care.”
“Why can’t you just leave her alone! You don’t love her, do you?”
Aleks smirked. “Who said anything about love? Ineverloved that worthless piece of trash. She was only good for two things, her ass and her money. The ass I can find other places, but I do want her money and I damn well deserve it for putting up with her all these years.”
“What are you talking about?” I shook my head. “Katya barely makes enough here at the lodge to support her and Luca. Are you so desperate you are willing to go back to jail over a maid’s salary?
Laughing, Aleks said, “Don’t act so innocent. You know damn well what I am talking about. If you think I am going to let you swoop in and steal her inheritance from me, think again.”
I had absolutely no idea what Aleks was talking about. “What inheritance? Aleks, are you okay? Katya, is a maid at a ski lodge, not an heiress.” I said, dumbfounded.
Still pointing the gun at my head, he sat down in the chair by the window and started telling me everything.
“Oh, that’s what she wants us all to think because she doesn’t know that I know the truth. Little Miss Innocent thinks she gave that all up when she ran away, but a few years ago, I discovered what she’d been hiding. Why else do you think I stayed with her?”
I was starting to get frustrated but since there was still a gun aimed at me, I had to play along. “Okay, what is the truth? As far as I know, Katya is a single mom who left her family in Russia because they didn’t approve of her teenage pregnancy.”
Sighing, Aleks said, “But did you ever stop to think about why she ran all the way to Montana? Why didn’t she just go somewhere else in Russia?”
“I guess I just thought she wanted to give her unborn child a shot at the American Dream so to speak,” I said.
“Wrong, lover boy. She ran away because she knew she would be found back home and she wanted to escape. I thought her last name sounded familiar from stories my grandfather and uncles used to tell, so I started digging. I have some ‘acquaintances’ in Russia who were happy to ask around for me,” he said, grinning.
“And what did they find out?”
“As always, my instincts were correct. It turns out, the bitch is the heiress to one of the oldest toy companies in Russia. The Belinsky family is filthy rich, and she stands to inherit a fortune,” he explained.
