LOGINRaven again shook her head.
Nikoli and Yuri could read the fear in her eyes.
Before either of them could say anything, a knock sounded at the door.
Yuri called out for the person to come in.
Kosta joined them, placing a photo on the desk between them.
“Is your roommate okay?” Roman asked Pepper.“Yeah, she’s going to stay with her boyfriend until this is over.”“And the other matter?” Mikial asked.“That’s nothing. Just another friend worried about me.”“And is this friend a boyfriend?” Mikial asked.“No he isn’t,” Pepper assured him. “Well, he is a boy and somewhat a friend but I’ve never seen him as more than that. Just a friend.”“But he wants to be more?”Pepper shrugged. “Maybe, but I never have, so the point is moot, isn’t it?”“Perhaps.” Mikial frowned. “Perhaps not.”“Let’s not go the
Raven nodded at her. “I’m pretty sure you’re in it now. Mikial won’t let you go so easily.”“I can’t stay here!” Pepper repeated.“Even if you go, he’ll find you again. He won’t stop looking for you and if something happens to him because he was looking for you, the rest of them will hunt you down. They have a very strong bond, if you hurt one of them you hurt them all.”“The same goes for you doesn’t it?” Pepper asked.Raven nodded. “But in a different way. My father ranks higher than Yuri but I still don’t want his blood spilled over this baby. I have to find a way to make it right with Misha and Sergi, as well as Yuri.” She shrugged. “I just don’t kn
Raven sat against the top of the bed and watched as Pepper paced back and forth. They had come in here a while ago, so the guys could discuss things. Raven knew very little about what they were talking about but that wasn’t anything new. Since she’d gotten hooked up with Yuri, she’d learned there were things they didn’t discuss in front of civilians. Yuri told her once that this was his way of protecting her.Pepper sat down and stared at Raven. “I need to think about something else. Please talk to me.”Raven chuckled. “I hear you. So what do you want to talk about?”“What’s the story with you and this guy Yuri?”Raven shrugged and looked away. “Apparently, he d
Nicky went on over the phone, "The car itself was too ripped up to try and find any evidence that another car might have been involved. There just wasn’t enough evidence to suggest another car ran it off the road but some of the cops suggested this wasn’t an accident. When they looked into it, they couldn’t determine there was any reason to think it was murder. Nothing in the background of Cullen said he had a powerful enemy, so they had to let it go.”“Okay, thanks Nicky.” Raven ended the second call.The four of them were quiet for a moment.“Why would anyone murder the attorney?” Pepper asked breaking the silence. “Did he know something that might have mattered? Did he know something about Jessie’s death that might have labeled it anything other than an accidental death by fire? What is going on here?”“I don’t know baby, but something here stinks,” Mikial assured her.Raven snapped her head around to stare at him at the endearment but didn’t say anything. She just reached for her
In the middle of the night, Leon woke up to his phone ringing. The ring tone told him who was calling and he really didn’t want to answer this particular call. He looked over at his wife and found her still asleep. He realized then that she’d taken a sleeping pill and she wouldn’t wake up until morning. He figured he’d better take care of this sooner rather than later. He didn’t want anyone to overhear this call. So he got out of bed and answered as he went to his office. “Hello.”“What the hell did you do?” The voice on the other end had a slight accent to it. The accent was fading but still there, much to the owner’s disgust. Timothy Flynn didn’t want anyone to know he had ties to the Irish mob, even though he wasn’t part of the organization he still had friends associated with it.&ldquo
At midnight the door to his apartment opened. Yuri had been waiting for the two men to join him.Barshan and Roman came in.Yuri poured all three of them a drink and passed them out. “Did you find her?”Barshan nodded. “We did. She’s with Mikial and Pepper at a safe house.”Yuri tightened his jaw. “Why isn’t she here?”“She refused to come here,” Barshan replied.“This is her home.” Yuri growled as his fingers tightened on the glass he held in his hand.Barshan shrugged. “She told us if we made her come back here, she would find a way to escape, and no one wo
Raven squared her shoulders and told them all, “If that’s my file he was going to sell me at fourteen to a pimp named Big Jimmy. If it’s Nicky’s, he was going to be sold to a pedophile by the code name of Captain Silver. Carlos was just wait
Yuri shook his head. “Gregor placed an extra sensor on the door to the penthouse a few days ago. I thought someone had been in there a few other times. The only strange thing about those times is there was never anything missing then either. The alarm I set a
Yuri walked out of his office to the elevator and pressed the down button. One of his brothers was in the office downstairs waiting for him. Normally, he wouldn’t break up a meeting like the one he was having with this Raven girl but Sazon said it was importa
Yuri motioned for her to sit and he waited until she sat down to again sit, behind his desk. Folding his fingers into a steeple, he rested them against his lips and watched as she simply stared at him. “Do you know who I am?”Raven still looked alert as she answered, “You are Yuri Anatoly.”Yuri no







