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I lean up and kiss my husband on the lips, and the puppy kisses me too.
“Thank you,moy lyubimyy muzh,”I say softly to him. I’ve been practicing that for days. He leans down and kisses me again. He calls me his beloved wife, so I learned how to say my beloved husband.
“Moya lyubimaya zhena,” he says, and I feel my heart thump extra hard.
He spends the rest of the evening by my side when he’s not taking the puppy out for walks. He doesn’t eat anything because of the fight later on.
As the night progresses, I get more and more nervous, and my stomach has finally had enough right after all of the men leave to go to the fight. Sparrow,Babushka, and I are left to stay at the party. I rush for the restroom and close myself into a stall, where I throw up several times until nothing is coming out.
When I exit the stall, I’m shocked to see my sisters.
“What are you doing here?” I ask them as I look at the door nervously. “How did you get in here?” My eyes continue to dart from the door to them.
“We thought we’d come check you out,” Lyric says as she moves toward me after I wash up and rinse my mouth. She takes me in her arms. “Do you know there are a lot of Russian people out there? Why are you here?”
I pause as I step back from her embrace.
“Are you pregnant with that mafioso’s baby?” Ainsley says in way of greeting.
I laugh nervously because I could be, but I’m thinking it’s too soon since my last period, and then I realize I haven’t had my period.
“Oh my God, you are.” Ainsley smacks her hand onto the dryer.
“I don’t know. He’s not a mafiosi. He’s Bratva, and he’s my husband,” I say. They both stop and look at me like I grew a second head. “I had to marry him. They know about us.” I wave my hand around the three of us. I look down and bite my lip, working it with my teeth.
“You told him, didn’t you?” Lyric moves toward me and holds a hand against my shoulder.
Tears spring to my eyes. “I had to. He figured out most of it because of you being a hacker. I slipped and said you hacked your custody records. How you found me.”
“I get it.” She pulls me into her body.
“I don’t get it. Why would you do that?” Ainsley says.
“Why would you single out the Lucky Dice when it’s owned by two men who haven’t had kids. That wasn’t your plan.”
“Well, we changed our minds when our father told us he stole it from him.”
“Grayson didn’t though. Your father lost the property because he didn’t bid high enough on it. Dima told me.”
“Dimatold you. You’re so naive and stupid. I knew she wasn’t going to help us really, Ly. She left us high and dry with no money, and now she’s turned us over to the very men who will want to kill us.”
“No. Dima said they want to talk to you.” My head starts to swim, and I reach out to hold onto the sink for balance. Lyric notices and grabs for me, but I fall to the floor.
“Help. Get an ambulance,” Lyric yells, and it’s the last thing I hear before I’m completely out.
* * *
Dmitri
The guys all move around the room as my phone starts ringing. I look at it and seeBabushka’s name.
“Da,” I answer.
I hear her breathing heavily. I surge from the table I’m sitting on as they get ready to tape my hands.
“What’s the matter? Where is Lennon?” I bark into the phone.
“An ambulance just took her. She fainted. Two women were talking to her in the restroom, and one said they were arguing and Lennon fainted. They said she was throwing up before they came in.”
