"we'll be able to start shipping weapons across
be better spent finding a woman for the night. Pr
mouth for his insolence. Oleg is looking at him sideways, as though
ignoring me. "Five minutes, it would take. A
right to be," I say calmly. "Be ha
always ge
put my hands on the edge of the table. "Are you
up his nose as though the vodka has infused him with courage. "Fyodor wo
," I sa
. "Yes, I believe I have had enough." He rises to his fee
Anatoly places his hand on my arm. "Erik," he says quietly. "You wil
at gap has been causing me sleepless nights of late. A w
signs of disloyalty. I am still very much the b
r," I
did not look up during the exchange, even when his name
ine. Make it clear that he will
inscrutable smile on his face. He inclines his head. "
r. "If that happens again," I murmu
ut give the drunken fool a chance
dier who thinks h
cking these past couple of weeks, nothing more significant than that. Tall, with legs that can wrap around a man and make him
here?" she whispers
falls onto the chair beside me. "Y
retty girl cannot interrupt me, who can? I am done anyway
thigh. "Seeing as it's just the two of us ... Y
. "If we leave, it
She knows I am not ready-will never be ready-to invite her into my personal s
od to forget, just
Alena breathes, t
me love her, eyes burning into me, tugging and sighing and moaning. But now she is glancing at the door
me
a giggle, though it sounds somehow off. I do not know Alena as well as she w
g is wro
rship in the Bratva, Damir and his stomach-churning desires to forge alliances with racist monsters, the remnan
s born f
she is playing a part. But of course she is. She has been playi
here a pit
urselves into the foreplay, but again there is something amis
rt having sex, she gives me a lit
s. "I've got this new toy I
neath me like a serpent. She makes toward her ba
Merely a man on edge, imagining monsters u
ings it open, everything I suspected p
myself for a fool. My pulse is pounding in my th
e other side
ough with the pistol,
s only raw survival, or death. Nothing mor
e here tonight, I w
nd Radovan's broad ba
quite the pair
ave any wits," he says
stop him from r
gun flash winks. He fires again and lav
r, throwing myse
that will end my life. I wrestle with him, my muscles straining so hard that veins bulge on my forearms. I knock
es a glass
tum
leaps fo
etween his eyes, killing this man
ng into the back of his head
Alena diving at
Radovan; maybe she needs the money from whoever is paying for t
t then Radovan twitches behind me, not quite dead. Men n
iring three more shots: one into
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