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“Are you mad, Evgeny?I am not your love.I am nothing to you!”Alina spat.
“Ah, but you are.My Tiger knows it.You are my fated mate,” he said, smiling widely.
Alina shuddered.Looking around for something to use as a weapon, she got off the bed, backing away from the crazed Tiger.The only things she could see were some candles, a propane fueled hot plate, and a cooler in the corner.Had he been living in this room?It was very much like the warehouse he’d held her prisoner before.
“Where are you going,koshechka?You know, with my father in prison, I am destined to rule the Bratva.All the power, money, and control is mine now.You must see, you will never get away from me.Better accept your place at my side.”
Her inner she-Cat hissed and snarled.There was no way Evgeny Ivanovich was her fated mate.Eduardo held that title, and the pain of losing him before she ever really had him filled her until she thought she would burst with it.
“There now, mate.”
“I have a mate, and you are not him.Let me go, Evgeny.I will never be yours!”Alina shouted, trying to snap the male out of his insanity.
“You will be mine.Never fear, fair Alina.And when I mark you, I will do so where all can see.You will never think of anyone else again,” Evgeny told her, stalking her across the room.
Heart pounding, Alina ran for the door, but she was too slow.Evgeny reached for her with claw-tipped hands, his beast pushing for control.His eyes blazed the yellow of his Cat, and she fought wildly against him, scratching the side of his face until blood leaked from his skin like a sieve.
“Bitch, I will show you,” he snarled, holding the flapping bits of skin to his cheek as he stood up, hissing in anger.
Evgeny growled his anger, using claws, he tore the hose connecting the propane to the griddle.Alina yelled for him to stop, but it was too late.With his gun in one hand, freezing her in place, Evgeny, the fucking coward, took a lighter from beside a row of candles.
“Like Romeo and Juliet, yes?We will go out together,koshechka,” he said, then he flicked the lighter and—boom!
Something struck Alina in the stomach.She barely got off a scream, eyes wide as a giant fireball ignited the gas and went hurling at the ceiling.Pain and shock flooded her along with adrenaline as the door flew open.Wood and sheetrock crashing across the room, and she dropped down to her knees, but not before she saw the enormous, fierce Grizzly of herbogatyrracing to her rescue.
Mate, her Tigress growled, and Alina’s heart rejoiced.He had come for her.She just hoped he was not too late.
ChapterSeven
When Eduardo had arrived back at the Petrov complex with Konstantin, he almost lost his fucking mind.Alina was not there.His military training was the only reason he did not break down into a full blown panic.
Good thing, too.Because within seconds of that discovery, he received another.His phone rang and Jose, one of his team, called him to say Rosie, a dancer at the club, had just come to him with a problem.
Marcella and Alina had gone outside during a break and had not returned to the club to finish rehearsals for the grand re-opening of the newly renovated wing ofThe Strip Club.
“What the fuck do you mean, Jose?Where is she?”
“Well, boss, we performed a search and found Marcella in the alley behind the club.She’s been shot, but she’s still alive.Barely,”the man informed him.
“Where are you now?I need you to get the fucking surveillance feed to me, Jose,” he growled, but the man was still talking.
“I am sending it now, boss, and I am with Marcella at the Shifter clinic.Before she went into surgery, Marcella said something.”
“What did she say?”
“She said he has Alina.”
“Who?”
“I don’t know.That was the only name she mentioned.”
“Fucking hell,” Eddie growled, barely holding onto his humanity.
“Here, gimme that,” Konstantin said, taking Eddie’s phone.
The Tiger’s eyes glowed icy blue and his lips formed a thin line.Of course, Konstantin was worried about his sister, and the acrid scent of his anger filled the air.But Eddie was too busy trying to calm his own emotions down long enough to formulate a plan.
They needed information first.And in less than a minute, they had it.Konstantin downloaded the security feed from the camera in the alley behind the club, and Eddie leaned next to him as they watched events unfold.What they saw made Eddie’s blood run cold.
