Page 97 of Bratva Jewels Box Set
I shake my head. Then I feel his fingers wrapping around my throat.
“Open your fucking eyes, Sapphire,” he demands as he squeezes my throat tightly.
No, I would rather be choked to death than stabbed, so I shake my head.
He squeezes tighter, and I’m struggling to breathe, everything is constricting. Then he stops and lets go of me. The knife trails down my cleavage, the cold metal leaving a shiver in its wake. Then I hear material ripping as the knife sinks into my dress.
My eyes shoot open, and I watch as Nikolai cuts the dress away from me. I’m left exposed in my bra and G-string.
His eyes roam over my goose-pimpled body, then he turns around and stalks back to a table. He flips open a computer and turns it around so the bright light fills the room. My eyes squint, trying to work out what’s on the computer. I watch as he pulls out his phone, presses a number, and puts it on loudspeaker.
“Do you have it? Do we have a deal?” I hear the woman ask through the speaker.
“Yes. I’m now prepared to release it all.” I watch as Nikolai types what looks to be an email, attaches something to it, and presses a button.
“You should have it now,” he tells the person on the phone.
There is silence for a while, then they gasp. “Oh my god, this is … Fuck …” is all the woman on the phone says. “This is Mateo and his best friend. Shit, the rumors are true.”
“No!” I scream. “No!” I thrash around in the chains.
“It’s been nice doing business with you, but I have to go.” Nikolai hangs up the phone. “I warned you, Sapphire, that if you tried to escape, I would destroy your lovers.”
“No!” I cry. Their lives are going to be ruined, all because of me. “No.” I sink further into the cuffs.
“Leave us!” Nikolai yells at Dmitri.
“But I thought …”
“Don’t worry, my friend, you will have your turn.”
I don’t care anymore what they do to me. I have ruined the lives of the two men I love more than anything in this world.
I hear the door close.
This is it.
Just kill me now.
“Zoe.” Nikolai’s voice softens, which surprises me.
My eyes open and he is standing in front of me.
“Why them?”
I frown. What is he talking about?
“Why did you fall in love with them? What do they have that I don’t?”
I’m genuinely in shock. I shake my head—what is he getting at?
“I loved you, Zoe. I would have protected you. We could have been happy.”
“Nikolai, I did love you. I loved you till you sold me into sex. I thought you were going to propose in Moscow. I wanted a future with you, but you threw that all away when you made me give Dmitri a blow job as soon as I landed in Russia.”
Nikolai shakes his head. “I had to, I’m the boss, and it was expected of me to do that. You made me so proud that day.”
I want to throw up. Who the fuck is proud of their girlfriend giving their cousin a blow job?
