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He blinked at me slowly, his smile fading.
I rolled my eyes and took a few steps away from him before spinning back around to face him. “She set you up, you damned fool!”
He swallowed, gaze sliding away from mine. “Oh God.”
“If you want to get back into my trust, and the brothers’ good graces, find Maria. That’s your only job right now. Go find her, use your men for help if you need to, and bring her to me.Alivethis time, Boris.”
Drunk or not, Boris now looked horrified. He nodded and backed out, opening the door for himself and leaving my presence.
Chapter 12
Olivia
Iwoke up early the next morning and immediately looked at my phone. No new texts from Viktor. I hated that he had me worried about him. He was a stranger, a criminal. Amazing in the sack, and Michael’s father, but I barely knew him. And he was too damn dangerous. Just being around him was probably risky.
But there I was, checking my phone again. I set it aside, rolling my eyes and flopping back onto my pillows.Stop worrying about him!
I stared at the ceiling, listening for any sound that Michael was stirring. Nothing yet. I drew in a deep breath, and said, low and very firmly, “Olivia. Do not let yourself fall for this man.”
But the moment my eyes closed, I was back in his dim room, velvet under my back, hands gripping the wood, writhing as he sucked my nipples and fucked me at the same time.
I gasped and my eyes flew open. “No,” I told myself again, but it was no use. My entire body was already tingling, my nipples suddenly hypersensitive as they rubbed against my cotton tank top. I wanted him again.
Ugh. Why did the best lay of my life have to be a damn mobster? If Anna knew, she’d be furious at me. We had both sworn off troublemakers in high school.
But now, she was married to a Captain America type who had been overseas since before the birth of their daughter, while I was pining for a guy who had probably shot people before. Might do it to me if I learned the wrong thing or pissed him off enough.
I wanted so badly to be able to walk away, leave him behind, never think of him again. But Michael tied us together. And my body craved Viktor with an intensity I couldn’t explain or justify.
But I couldn’t let myself love him. I couldn’t fall. If I did, my judgment would go completely to shit, and I wouldn’t be able to trust myself.
Michael woke up while I was taking my shower. I came out wrapped in a towel to find him standing in the hallway, rubbing one eye sleepily. “I’m hungry,” he mumbled.
“I know, honey. Go to the bathroom and brush your teeth, I’ll get dressed and get breakfast together.” I really didn’t feel like eating, not with the whole Viktor mess running through my head constantly. But duty called, and I couldn’t expect Michael’s tummy to wait on my weird emotional crap.
I came back from my room in jeans and tank top, my usual warm-weather gear when I wasn’t working, to see Michael already parked in his seat at the table. “You brush your teeth?” I asked him. He nodded, but his eyes looked sly. “Michael…”
He pouted, but after a few moments he slid off his chair and went back to brush his teeth. He didn’t understand that rushing through his morning tasks wouldn’t make mine go any faster.
I made him eggs with a little cheese and mushrooms, and some of those crisp little sausages, and fruit salad. I didn’t know why he liked mushrooms so much, but he beamed when he saw them and picked each of them out of the scramble in turn, eating them all first.
Meanwhile, I picked at my food while Viktor haunted my mind.
“Can we go to the park today?” Michael mumbled around a mouthful of fruit.
“Chew and swallow before you talk, honey, you could choke.”
He pouted a little this time, but did so anyway. “Park?”
“Yeah, we can go see the ducks.”
“Yay, duckies!” He peered up at me. “Do people have pet ducks?”
“Yeah, but they’re hard to have in the house. They poop everywhere. You have to make them wear diapers.” I wrinkled my nose at him, and he grinned.
“Duckie diapers? That’s funny! I haven’t needed diapers in a long time.”
“No, you’re a big boy. But ducks can’t learn how to hold it until they can go outside.”
