Page 118 of Fall into Savagery

I was in front of a restaurant owned by the Bratva.

It had been closed for weeks now.

A sign out front said it was due to remodeling.

There wasn’t any remodeling happening.

Nikolay and Mikhail stood on either side of me.

Maxim and Kirill stood by the car to stand guard.

“Ready?” Mikhail asked.

I smiled. “You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for this.”

Nikolay put his hand on my shoulder. I turned to him. “I want the kill.”

I nodded. “He’s yours.”

I might have been the one taken, but this fucker belonged to Nikolay.

He grinned at me and squeezed my shoulder before walking past and making his way to the door.

“Are you okay?” I asked Mikhail.

He had been quiet all morning.Unusuallyquiet. And that said something, considering Mikhail was almost always silent.

He nodded. “Yeah. I’m just glad everything worked out, and that we got Luca. So many fucking things could have gone wrong.”

He grimaced, and I thought back to his words to Catalina yesterday.

I guess we were just trying so hard to get things back to how it was before Damien was taken from us that we never stopped to realize how badly we’re all affected by it.

I nodded. “I’m glad to be back. I’m glad you guys got my back.”

“Always,” he said.

I grinned. “Come on. We can’t let Nikolay have all the fun.”

He laughed and we walked to the front door.

I heard Luca’s cries as soon as we got inside the restaurant right away.

Someone had been keeping him alive for us while I recovered, but it was time to settle a debt.

And this time, Luca wouldn’t survive us.

He cried harder when he saw me come in.

“Just kill me, please.”

He let out a loud groan when Nikolay punched him in the side.

The bastard was hung up by his hands. He was also bleeding everywhere. The white, ratty shirt he wore was covered mainly by old blood that had turned a brownish, copper color.

Death filled the air.

“Fine,” I said, smiling. “Don’t say we’re not generous. But first, let’s do something together.”

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