Chapter: Chapter 33ELVIS POVI didn’t even turn around. What the hell is she talking about? I thought, slamming the door hard enough to rattle the frame, and stormed away from the car, the gravel crunching beneath my boots.But she chased after me, her footsteps frantic behind mine.I silently thanked Losif for parking in a spot tucked far enough away not to draw attention."You have no idea what it’s like," she shouted after me, her voice stretched between anger and heartbreak. "To sit in silence, choking on the truth I should’ve screamed because you made me swear to keep it buried, she gasped, then pushed on, "while you just turn your back and leave me with it. Alone. Watching everything fall apart around us...Her words slammed into my back, freezing me mid-step.I turned and walked back to her. Now, face-to-face under the dying light, I narrowed my eyes."What did you just say?" I demanded."Yeah, I watched everyone around me go from bad to worse..." she lamented."No." I interrupted, shaking my hea
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Chapter: Chapter 32ELVIS POVAfter dropping the message like a stray grenade, Losif gave a curt bow“Thank you for letting me serve you again, boss,” he declared, loud and emotionless, as if he hadn’t just dropped a ghost in my lap. Amused, I watched him disappear in the same direction Pavel had gone.Now back in my room, the door locked behind me with a deliberate click, I stood still for a beat, maybe longer, feeling the note burn in my pocket like it had teeth. At last, I pulled out the note Leo had sent, unfolded it, and read:"So this is my punishment? For dragging you to one goddamn party? If I’d known that was such a crime, I wouldn’t have bothered trying. Honestly, if I hadn’t run into your brother, Losif, I’d have figured you were just something I imagined, might’ve been easier that way.""I couldn’t help the dry chuckle that escaped.”“Blockhead,” I muttered under my breath, a crooked smile tugging at the corner of my mouth. Just like Leo, always digging where he shouldn’t. But right now… that
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Chapter: Chapter 31OLEG POV"Driven by urgency, my body acted before my mind could catch up, and I was out the door in a heartbeat. The Andreyevs were gone. And already the crowd had begun to dissolve, scattered like leaves fleeing the coming storm.My eyes swept across the scene, hunting for a single spark of abnormality.Smug smiles, stunned faces, and side conversations. Meanwhile, the others, unaware, returned to their business. But those who saw me made a deliberate effort to avoid my gaze.But no one stood out. No reaction loud enough. No slip-up obvious enough. Still, I knew.They must’ve sent the video from right here, watching and ensuring everything played out exactly how they wanted.Someone was playing games.A laugh escaped me, wild and Unhinged, but so far from real it didn’t even touch me. I dropped into a squat, pressing an elbow to my mouth as I laughed harder, like disbelief itself had made a home in my throat. The absolute idiocy of it.My men closed in, uncertain how to react to a s
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Chapter: Chapter 30OLEG POVElvis moved carefully toward me, like a man walking into fire and hoping it wouldn’t burn him. Deep beneath me, a volatile cocktail of emotions stirred, all crashing against each other like waves in a storm. I distinctly remembered telling him I would kill him the next time we crossed paths.”And yet here he was. Not only did he dare show his face where he knew I might be, he dared summon me to it.I had stepped away from the family business for barely a breath before one of my men alerted me that Elvis Andreyev was around. I dismissed it at first; after all, news of his presence in Russia had already landed on my desk the day before. But hearing he was at lair, on our territory, “sacred to blood and loyalty, off-limits to traitors,” sparked something black in me. Was this fool playing games with my bloodline?"He looked different now, physically, sure. But it was ridiculous how, even as he doubled over and retched on me, every cell in my body already recognized him before he
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Chapter: Chapter 29ELVIS POVMy father rose from his chair, and I followed suit, instinctively mirroring his steps as he paced the room like a caged lion. His cane tapped rhythmically against the floor until he halted abruptly.""From what I gathered," he said, eyes fixed ahead, "it was Oleg who leaked that video…?"His tone was a loaded verdict masked as a question.Words caught in my throat, stuck between denial and truth.Without warning, his walking stick snapped against the back of my knee. The blow was so sudden, I collapsed with a groan, my leg buckling like it had been yanked out from under me. Pain shot up my thigh as I clutched the floor.you stupid boy, what a waste!! he hissed, like spitting poison through his teeth. “I wasn’t trying to—”. I exhaled shakily, burning hotter than anger.His eyes scanned me.“That footage going around... only you and I knew about it when it was sent to me three years ago,” he stated, leaning on his cane. “It came from a burner number. I made sure to wipe every t
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Chapter: Chapter 28: Fictional themes. Not the author’s views (Discretion advised)ELVIS POVI pushed myself off the chair and dropped to my knees before my father. My entire body was racked with a violent shiver that I couldn’t stop, my gaze glued to the floor.“The contract. The partnership I bled for,” my father said slowly, each word dripping with seething resentment. “All terminated, because of some filthy little film my son should never have even imagined, let alone allowed to exist.”He muttered the last part under his breath, rubbing the back of his neck like the very mention of it gave him a migraine.“Bitterness surged as I pressed my lips shut“A son who drags his father’s name through dirt.” His voice darkened. “Tell me, Elvis... what punishment fits a son like that?”I was drenched in sweat now, heart pounding like fists against a locked door. It all felt like a repeat, like dejà vu all over again, of that time the video first ended up in my father’s hands. The story I spun. The fallout that followed. And the warped command he etched into my mind to tak
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