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“So why the fuck are they active now and why do they want you?” Conor snarls.
“Who even knows that I exist?” I shake my head as I stare at the screen.
“Vlad,” Conor growls and I close my eyes. Vlad and his sons are the only people who know who and where I am. I don’t want to believe it of him, but all the signs point straight to him. Still, I can’t wrap my head around it. Vlad had plenty of opportunity to kill me
“I’ll arrange a meeting with him tomorrow,” I whisper.
“The fuck you will,” Conor snaps.
“He might not be behind this,” I place my hand on Conor’s thigh. “And if he’s not, he’ll be our best chance at finding out who is. If you and your brothers go in there and shoot him in the head first then we may never get to the bottom of this.”
“You are not putting yourself or our babies in danger, Jessie,” he goes on.
“We won’t be in danger. You, Shane, Mikey, and Liam will be right beside me. We’ll have the meeting here at the club and have our men here. I won’t be at risk at all.” I look to Shane who has his brow furrowed. “What do you think?”
He rubs a hand over his jaw and sighs. “I think you’re right…”
“Shane!” Conor snaps.
“We can’t keep Jessie out of this, Con, as much as we’d like to. And I don’t know, this doesn’t seem like Vlad’s style,” he says with a shake of his head.
“The Bratva’s elite kill squad try and kidnap our wife and you don’t think the head of the fucking Bratva had anything to do with it?”
“But they haven’t worked for the Bratva for years, right?” Shane asks me.
“As far as I can tell.” I say with a nod of my head. “But I’ll admit I haven’t looked into them for a long time.”
“So, maybe this is some kind of takeover?” Shane offers.
“Then why aren’t they going after Vlad? Why do they need Jessie?” Conor asks.
“Maybe they are going after him? And Jessie is the only surviving Ivanov – well except for Hayden now, but it’s Jessie who Alexei recognized as his heir. Maybe this brotherhood wants back in power, and what better way to make a power grab than with the true heir?”
“So you think they want Jessie alive?”
I shake my head. “I doubt that,” I say with a sigh. “But if they kill me then they will have a genuine claim to the top.”
Shane wraps an arm around me and plants a kiss on the top of my head. “They won’t get close enough to touch you, sweetheart,” he whispers. “Promise.”
“I know,” I smile at him.
“Hmm.” Conor grunts beside us and I squeeze his hand.
“At least we have a starting point now,” I say. “In a few hours we’ll have some answers, and knowledge is power.”
He brushes the hair from my face. “Power is power.”
“Well, we have plenty of that too,” I remind him.
He rolls his eyes but I know that we’ve won him over. “You’ll make the call on loudspeaker and Shane and I will be in the room with you.”
“I wouldn’t expect anything less,” I say with a smile.
“How do you get me to agree to anything you want?” he says before he kisses me softly.
“She’s got the keys to the cookie jar, that’s why,” Shane says with a soft laugh as he goes back to his paperwork.
“Shane!” I admonish him but he winks at me and I can’t help laugh too.
