LOGIN“Nor will they ever forget the day the infidels murdered our true king," Demi went on. "Yes, things were bad under his rule toward the end but he was still our king.”
“Russia was nothing for a long time afterwards. People living hand to mouth.” Yuri shook his head. “Starving in the streets. There were so many oprhans and bad people. It is better now but it took a lot of suffering
Russell got up to pace again. “I have no doubt that you’ll help me. You’ll help me by getting into that vault and giving me its contents.”“And if the vault is empty, what then?” Talli asked. “I’m dead either way, so why should I do as you demand?”“Because if you don’t, I’ll track down the man I found you with and kill him right in front of you. He’s nothing more than a loan shark anyway. No one will even miss his kind, in fact there will probably be some people who are happy that they no longer have to pay him his blood money.”Talli stared at the madman in front of her. “Do you really think that? That he is only a loan shark?”Russell sneered. “Of course, as that is all he is. I went to him to get money, nothing more. The fact that he demanded a bigger amount than I b
“When I was a young child,” Russell explained. “My mother told me of our history. I grew up on tales of being a shirttail relation to the last of the Russian royals, of my mother playing with Princes and Princesses. Being there but not quite belonging. As a younger man, I visited the royal displays of fine jewelry and the bling they lived with every day and I thought to myself I deserved that. Russia isn’t the powerhouse it was back then but if I had drive and ambition enough, I could make it once again a place of power it used to be. I began researching my family tree and I spent years locating whatever relatives I had left. I found Rizvan Dreususs was really my only rival to the throne. It took me years to find him and when I did, he told me not to be a fool. He listened to my dreams of restoring our family to the throne and he shook his head at me. He had his people throw me out into the streets of Paris and told me to wake
“You stabbed him over thirty times,” Talli whispered. Her throat was dry as tears rolled down her cheeks.Russell nodded. “When I saw all the blood I knew I'd lost it. Once I started, I couldn’t stop. The bloodlust inside me was too much.”“Did you kill my mother as well?”Russell smiled.Gazing into his eyes, Talli could see nothing in them. She remembered the old saying about the eyes being the windows of the soul and she knew this man had no soul. He was evil all the way though. She shuddered with that knowledge as her fate was in his hands. Then she remembered the vow Barshan had given her. She knew Barshan wouldn’t give up on her until she was safe again in his arms. She had to hang on to that hope. The hope that he would find her and save her.
Barshan heard Talli screaming as the car was rammed by another vehicle. He then heard Rugar barking frantically. He groaned as he tried to open his eyes. Pain assaulted his body and he flinched and came awake. He struggled to open his eyes and he felt something wet lick his face. He could feel something warm and wet down the side of his head and from somewhere in the distance he heard his name being called out.“What the fuck?” he murmured. The sounds echoed in his head and he frowned.“Barshan, open your eyes,” someone called to him.Barshan tried again and this time, he managed to open them. The light shattered his sight and the pain grew uncomfortable. He didn’t want to know what happened. Then he felt something wet lick his cheek again and he pushed it away.Opening
Talli looked around and shook her head. “I’ll have to melt it all down and start over.”“You can do that?” Kosta questioned.Talli nodded. “That’s how I designed most of the items here.”“Cool.” Kosta grinned.Barshan nudged her toward the back rooms. “You get started in the back and the boys and I will gather what we can out here. Go.”Talli and Rugar went to the offices and she found a bag then went to the first safe. Working the combination, she opened the heavy door and began emptying the trays inside. She just dumped it all together. She figured she could sort it all out at a later date.The bag was almos
Barshan tucked her close to him and tried to comfort her. He then recognized Kosta and a few of the other men standing there. But there were several others he didn’t know.Kosta broke away from the group and came toward them. He nodded at Barshan, Talli and Sazon.“Who are these men?” Sazon asked.“Ukraines. They said Demi sent them over to guard what was left,” Kosta told them.Barshan nodded. “He made the call before we left the hotel this morning.”“So we’re working with the Ukraines now?” Kosta raised an eyebrow.Barshan nodded at Talli. “For now.”Kosta gave a
When she had first heard the ping of the elevator, Raven had quickly moved into her hiding place. The air shaft vent was located low on the wall inside the bedroom. The cover held in place by four small screws were easily removed by the small screwdriver she carried in her backpack. She barely had
The alarm went from solid red to a blinking red. On the third blink, a special alarm went off in the security room and the door locked behind the interloper.Down in the hotel’s security room everyone saw this and three men scrambled. One got on the phone while the other two sat at monitors searchi
When she and Nicky had come to New Orleans three years ago, Raven had learned everything she could about the city and who actually ran it. After what happened with Carlos, trapping her into a life of thievery, she had learned to be very careful. She’d gotten a job at the hotel/restaurant in houseke
“Do you know who Yuri Anatoly is?” Nicky asked Raven as she walked through the front door of their apartment.The apartment wasn’t much and not in a good neighborhood but it was the best place they had lived in yet. It was small but then they didn’t need much.Raven groaned as she leaned wearily ag







