مكتبة
بحث
بيت / Mafia / CAPTIVE SINS / CHAPTER 40: THE BURIAL

مشاركة

CHAPTER 40: THE BURIAL

مؤلف: CatherineWrites
last update آخر تحديث: 2026-03-01 05:56:34

Natasha sat across from Dimitri in the lobby, the space between them comfortable enough now that silence didn't feel threatening. He leaned back in his chair, one ankle crossed over his knee, and told her about Konstantin's burial. The date. The church. The arrangements already in place.

She listened, and somewhere in the middle of his words, an idea clicked into place so perfectly it almost scared her.

This was her window.

"Can I come?" she asked.

Dimitri looked at her. "You didn't know him."

استمر في قراءة هذا الكتاب مجانا
امسح الكود لتنزيل التطبيق
الفصل السابق الفصل التالي
الفصل مغلق

أحدث فصل

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 45: HARMLESS

    The car pulled into the curb and Dimitri stepped out without a word. He handed nothing to anyone, said nothing to anyone. He just walked straight through the entrance, his black coat lifted from his shoulders by one of the maids the moment he crossed the threshold. He pressed the elevator button and the doors slid open.And she was standing right there.Something in his chest that had been wound tight since the port, since the president and his rings and his little stool and his certainty, since Gregory bleeding on the ground, since all of it, loosened. Just like that. Just from seeing her standing there in the open elevator doors looking at him with those pretty eyes."Oh hey," she said.He stepped forward and put his arms around her."Woah." Her voice was surprised but her hands came up immediately, patting his back gently. "What happened?"He didn't answer right away. He held her and pressed his face into her neck and just stayed there for a moment, breathing her in, letting the da

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 44: TERMS

    Natasha pushed the phone away from her and then pulled it back.She stared at the email one more time.You met with Chloe, right?That was it. That was all it said. No name. No demand. No explanation. Just that one quiet sentence sitting there like it already knew the answer and was asking purely to let her know that it knew.She picked up her fork and set it down again.She was done eating. She had been done eating since the notification came in but she was still sitting here because getting up felt like admitting that this had properly rattled her and she was not ready to admit that yet.She opened the email and typed back.Who are you? Stop sending me cryptic messages and just tell me directly what you want from me. And how do you know I met with Chloe? Come out clearly or stop messaging me entirely.She sent it and put the phone face down on the table.Then she picked it up and looked at it again.Nothing. No reply. Of course no reply. Whoever this was only communicated on their o

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 43: THE PORT

    Natasha stared at him.Alexei stood exactly where he was, his face giving away nothing, his hands relaxed at his sides, patient in the way that very dangerous things were patient."How do you know to call me that?" she asked.He smiled. It was a small, easy smile, the kind that belonged to a completely different kind of person. "It is just obvious," he said simply. "Natasha. As in Nat. It is just a short form."She looked at him for a long moment. She turned the logic over in her mind and held it up to the light and checked it from every angle.It made sense. Of course it made sense. Anyone could shorten Natasha to Nat. It was the most natural thing in the world. She was standing in a parking lot making something out of nothing because she was exhausted and confused and Chloe's face was still sitting behind her eyes like a photograph she couldn't put down.She shook her head slightly and turned toward the entrance."I can call you that, right?" Alexei said behind her.She stopped and

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 42: BROTHER

    "The men said they saw strange people when Konstantin was being lowered to the ground," Xavier said as both of them walked toward the car.Dimitri nodded. He had expected it. He had known the moment he confirmed Konstantin's burial date that certain people would show up, drawn to the event the way wolves were drawn to anything that smelled like weakness or opportunity. He had already instructed his men to track them quietly. He would get the report later.Right now he had somewhere else to be.They got into the car. Dimitri started the engine and pulled out of the church area without a word. The silence settled between them immediately, thick and loaded the way it always was when they were alone together. At least at the penthouse there were other people, other sounds, other things to look at. In the car there was nothing. Just the two of them and the road and every unresolved thing sitting in the air between them pretending not to exist.It was awkward in a way Dimitri refused to ack

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 41: WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING

    Natasha could not speak.She just stood there and stared at Chloe, taking in every single detail of the person in front of her. The heavy dreadlocks piled on her head. The rings, on her nose, her ears, her fingers, her eyebrow. The tattoos crawling up both arms and disappearing beneath her sleeves. The sharp angles of her face where there used to be softness. The way her clothes hung on her like they belonged to someone slightly bigger.Chloe had always been small. But she had never looked fragile before.She looked fragile now."What happened to you?" Natasha finally said, and she took one step forward without thinking."No." Chloe's voice was quiet but firm. She held up one hand. "Stay there, Natasha."She stopped. Something about the way Chloe said her name made her chest ache. Not cold exactly, but careful. Like even saying her name out loud was a risk being calculated.The silence stretched between them, filling the small restroom with everything that wasn't being said. Natasha l

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 40: THE BURIAL

    Natasha sat across from Dimitri in the lobby, the space between them comfortable enough now that silence didn't feel threatening. He leaned back in his chair, one ankle crossed over his knee, and told her about Konstantin's burial. The date. The church. The arrangements already in place.She listened, and somewhere in the middle of his words, an idea clicked into place so perfectly it almost scared her.This was her window."Can I come?" she asked.Dimitri looked at her. "You didn't know him."She shifted closer, holding his gaze steadily. "I actually met him once. At the supermarket." She paused. "I thought he was a bad person at first. Something about him made me uncomfortable, when you almost faced each other like you were going to kill each other.But I wasn't sure." She let that sit for a second. "An innocent man is dead. I just want to pay my respects. That's all."Dimitri studied her face the way he always did, like he was looking for the crack in the wall. Then something soften

فصول أخرى

قد تعجبك أيضًا

استكشاف وقراءة روايات جيدة مجانية
الوصول المجاني إلى عدد كبير من الروايات الجيدة على تطبيق GoodNovel. تنزيل الكتب التي تحبها وقراءتها كلما وأينما أردت
اقرأ الكتب مجانا في التطبيق
امسح الكود للقراءة على التطبيق
DMCA.com Protection Status