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She tapped her cigarette ashes onto the bloodstained floor.
“Round and round we go,” I said through clenched teeth. “You and your sick friends play, and we pay for your fuckups. Her name’s Lara, not Louisa, you sick bitch.”
She laughed, causing my skin to crawl. “Of course you were fucking with our shipments, costing us millions of dollars.” Her cold eyes found mine. “Didn’t I teach you better, Liana?”
Even now, she insisted on calling me by my twin’s name. This woman was delusional, believing her own lies.
“I have no regrets, you psychotic bitch,” I screamed at the top of my lungs, my breaths heaving. I should be stronger and keep my cool, but instead I was letting her get under my skin.
Mother tilted her head at Drago.
Everything in me stilled. No, Ifrozeas I watched Drago smile that feral dog smile. He pulled out a knife, then made his way toward me.
“M-Mother… No…”
And so began my screams.
Chapter 61
Kingston
My gut churned with a sick sense of dread.
The memories haunted me with each step deeper into this property, even though I hadn’t stepped foot in this country for eight years. I hadn’t been here, to this castle built on nightmares, in eight years, yet I remembered every stone and every corner. There were many nights during that time where it felt as if I was still here. It was the reason I refused to come back to Russia. For anyone or anything.
But she wasn’t just anyone or anything. She waseverything.
“We’re half an hour behind you.” My brother’s voice came through my earpiece. “Wait for us.”
My brothers and Alexei, along with his men and probably his own brothers, Sasha and Vasili Nikolaev, didn’t hesitate to join me in this rescue mission. But proper planning and scouting would have taken too much time that I feared Louisa didn’t have.
“Don’t be like that,” Sasha grumbled. “We like to have some fun too.”
“Ditto that,” Royce chimed in, sounding like he was on his way to a party. “We like to dance and kick ass too.”
“I’m going in,” I replied, ignoring them all. “Catch up as fast as you can.”
I rammed my shoulder into the reinforced door. A soft creak like the scrape of metal against metal filled the eerie silence and I held my breath, praying nobody heard it.
I lifted my gun high and entered the source of all my nightmares. The prison that stole my childhood. The prison that was trying to steal my future. Yet, knowing the ins and outs of this castle and compound gave me leverage. I knew the floor plan better than anyone.
Sofia wanted to play mind games, always loving the element of mental torment. It was what she and Ivan had in common. She knew I left this hellhole with more than physical scars.
But not even incapacitating nightmares would stop me from entering this property tonight. Nothing would stop me from saving Louisa—not even the risk of being tortured again. I failed her eight years ago; I wouldn’t today.
Spurred on by adrenaline racing through my veins, I entered the castle. I moved in silence, my steps soundless on the marble floor. Painstaking hours gave my brothers and I plenty of time to devise a plan of attack. They would be following shortly, using the tracker on me. Right now, I’d get as close to Louisa as possible before Sofia and her men realized I was here.
It was our best chance.
Her mother was a coldhearted bitch who had no trouble using her own flesh and blood for her own gain. The fact that she tortured Louisa, fucked with her mind, and held her responsible for the death of her twin told me she would have no trouble putting a bullet through her heart.
Sofia blamed Lou for crippling her empire from within, so she wouldn’t go for a quick death. She’d make her suffer, then probably try to brainwash her—again.
My heart thundered, adrenaline pumping through my veins and urging me forward to get my woman.
I needed to get to the woman who proved to me that life was worth living despite darkness and nightmares thrown our way. She was mine, and I’d stop at nothing to bring her home.
Together, we were invincible. We were one, an unbreakable unit.
