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Valentin Sheremetev is our father’s sworn enemy. They’ve been warring over territory for decades.
“So, what are you gonna do?” Silas asks us, oblivious that our secret world just flipped.
“Follow the money trail,” Nash assures. “Intercept shipments, eliminate the demand and the suppliers.”
Murder the fuckers.
That’s what he means.
The Six nod. They seem appeased. The tension in the room evaporates while I hide the war inside me, making me rage.
Is this the connection?
My father wants me to think he’s sending me on missions to save victims when really … I’m destroying his enemy’s operations here?
Fuck, I’m going to kill him.
But I can’t.
If I kill him, his soldiers will kill us. All this, while my father has Axel’s child.
It’s like any war. No one really wins.
Except there is one thing Iwilldo.
I will die getting Axel’s child back.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
WREN
The minuteI’m alone with my men, I expect Axel to go Bratva on me for blurting the Russian thing.
But instead, he picks me up, swinging me around. “Like a fucking queen!”
“What did I do?”
He passes me to Sire, who greedily takes me draped over his arms. Sire’s been quiet all afternoon, but Axel’s had a personality transplant. He’s happy and shit.
“Sheremetev,” Axel boasts with icy revenge in his eyes. “Our father’s enemy. We never would’ve gotten that intel without you.”
Nash plops down on an ivory settee. “We wouldn’t have anything without her. Thanks to Wren, they no longer hate us. And thanks to Sire, they’re big fans of his dick.”
This whole ship is decked out in black, ivory, and gold. We’re on the private guest level, having a secret meeting in Axel’s stateroom, while our hosts are having an afternoon orgy upstairs.
Thankfully, we’ve been invited to join them for dinner at eight.
Do I want food? No.
Am I hungry? Yes.
I haven’t forgotten that whole exchange about Daniel and Redix watching Sire in the Atlanta fetish club, and how much they enjoyed it with Silas. It’s boiling on a back burner in my mind.
But right now?
This is the burning issue.
“But what does it all mean?” Nash talks to the ceiling. “Does this mean that Ruslan’s found us?”
