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Maybe Jackson was right.
Maybe I needed to get away.
Maybe a weekend in the country would do me a world of good.
For the last year, I’d been singularly driven, not only to make Valentinetti Corp the best company around, but to destroy everything Maxim Fedorov held dear. I waited, took my time until the moment was right. When it was, I pounced. I was systematically and methodically buying every piece of property he owned. I was taking his financial backers and brokering new deals that would destroy him. His business partners were slowly ending alliances and forging new ones with me and when he found himself barely hanging on by a thread, I was going to take his shipping company and bankrupt him.
I wanted to watch as he returned to his beloved Russia a broken man. Then and only then would I tell him I was the one who ruined him.
I was going to destroy him.
I wanted him to feel the pain he caused me.
I wanted him on his knees, begging me, pleading with me to stop what was coming.
I wanted to break him as he broke me.
Chapter Four
Maxim
The rain pelted the window as I looked over the city I claimed, knowing she was out there somewhere.
So damn close, yet so far away.
I’d received the message the second her plane landed. I knew she would come. For the last year, she’d been trying everything within her power to destroy me. Buying up my companies, business, holdings little by little. She always was a determined woman. Once she put her mind to something, nothing, not even me, could stop her.
All because I fucked up.
There was no excuse to be had.
The night she walked away, I knew I would never see her again.
I saw the pain in her eyes.
Pain I purposefully put there.
From the moment we met, our relationship was nothing but a game of cat and mouse. The funny thing about that game. The cat never won and the mouse always got away.
Yet, it didn’t stop me from trying.
And I did try.
We both did.
For four years, we tried everything.
In the end, there was only one thing I could do to protect her. My life had spilled over, and because of me, she was now on his radar. So, I did the one thing I knew she would never forgive.
“Vladmir, make sure the others stay away tonight.” I said, handing him my coat. It was a long, boring night, and I was glad it was over. “And see that a fresh bottle of Crystal is brought up along with fresh strawberries and cheese. Moya Lyubov will be arriving later tonight.”
“Already took care of everything, boss.”
Slapping my trusted friend on the back, I smiled. One of the few times I did as I headed up to my room to shower when my cellphone rang. Sighing, I reached into my pant pocket and stopped, seeing the caller I.D..
Whistling loudly, Vlad rushed over. Showing him my phone, he nodded, running from the room. I knew where he was going. I gave him a few seconds to get set up before I answered the call.
“Mr. Fedorov. I’m not interrupting anything, am I?” the familiar grating voice chuckled, mocking me.
