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“Otlichno,” he murmurs.“Come.Let’s eat something.”
Sasha leads me out into the living room and stops short, so I bump into him.
“Blyat.”
I peek around him, curious to why he’s cussing.
“Hello, Sasha.”A familiar man sits in one of the chairs in the living room flanked by four other men.All are wearing suits and dark sunglasses.
“What is this?Men in black?”I mumble to myself.
Sasha keeps me behind him, but moves farther into the room and down the step until we stand in front of Aleksei Sokolov, his boss and head of the Bratva.The last time I saw him was a couple years ago at a wedding my family had been invited to.I’d accidentally collided with him and then Dad embarrassed me by scolding me like a child in front of everyone.
There’s an air of boredom surrounding him as he sips clear liquid from a crystal tumbler that I suspect isn’t water despite the fact it’s not even eight a.m..He sucks on the end of a cigar, blowing acrid smoke up into the air.I put my hand on Sasha’s lower back, and he tenses under my touch.Fear slides in.
“The debt will be satisfied,” Sasha says as though already knowing why the man is here.
“Three million dollars?”His boss scrutinizes me and I shift my weight nervously.
I don’t have a stitch of clothing on underneath this oversized dress shirt and the cool air isn’t helping.What I wouldn’t give for a sweater and some damn jeans.
“I’m good for it,” Sasha tells him.
His boss chuckles.“No doubt you are, but is she worth it?”
“Hey!I’m standing right here!”
All five men glare at me.I shrink back.That might have been a mistake.
Mr.Sokolov snubs out his cigar in the tumbler and snaps his fingers.Two of the four men advance on us and drag me away from Sasha.
“Aleksei.”Sasha steps forward but the other two block him.
His boss rises from the chair.“Disrespect must be handled.First the father and now the daughter?”
He strokes his chin and the two holding me tighten their grip.
“She’ll be punished.I promise you.”Sasha gives me a withering stare and I gulp back any bratty retorts.
Mr.Sokolov waves his hand and I’m taken away into another room.Before the door shuts, locking me in with the suited guards, his voice reaches me.
“You and I are going to discuss this debt along with your woman’s punishment.”
Chapter6
Sasha
While I expectedAleksei to hear about last night and be extremely displeased, what I did not expect was for him to show up at my place unannounced.There must be more to Lovensky’s thievery than I’ve been told.And while Aleksei is the Pakhan and leader of our entire organization, he’s also a friend.
“If you threaten Natalya again, we’re going to have a problem.”The two of us glare at each other, neither giving an inch.“I don’t give a fuck what you do to her father.He deserves any punishment coming to him.But she’s mine to deal with how I see fit.”
He waves me off, entirely unconcerned with my warning.“I don’t approve of this obsession you have with your little dancer.I also know that you don’t care.”He pauses.“So long as she does not become a distraction, do whatever you would like with her.But Sasha, what were you thinking letting her father off so easily?If word gets out—“
“It won’t,” I interrupt and Aleksei raises a single finger.
“If word gets out, then our enemies will think us weak.You do not steal three million dollars from the Bratva—fromme—and expect to walk away.There must be consequences to actions.”
I run my hand down my face.“And there will be if he doesn’t return the money to me in a month.It’s not unheard of for a man to sell off his daughter to clear his debts.”
