Rin helped his grandfather into his office after the nurse and her nephew left and motioned for him to sit in the chair behind the desk, but Sonny refused and took a seat in a wingback chair near the sofas. “Sit, all of you.” Sonny ordered them. Rin perched on the edge of the desk and watched as his father and mother fussed over Ang’s bruised jaw. Watching Sasha land the right hook had been surprising to say the least. He’d not anticipated it, and he would have considered it had been a thing of beauty, if it hadn’t been his sister, she’d put out cold. He was torn between throttling her and applauding. “I got a text from Sasha’s grandfather. It seems when she left here, she called him and let him know what happened.” “Bitch,” Angie said. “I’d like a couple minutes with her, and she ran with her tail between her legs.” Sonny sat up in his chair and eyed her, “shut up Angelina. You wouldn’t last ten seconds with her. She’s a fucking Russian mafia princess
Rin covered his mouth and prayed the next words out of his grandfather’s lips were not the ones he was dreading and yet it appeared Sasha had been right. God didn’t help men like him. “She is the only daughter of Sacha Volkov and his wife Avery. When Sacha was just sixteen, he snuck into a strip club and found a dancer there. He had a fake ID, so she thought he was older. She was working a pole, so he thought she was older. They had a fling for two weeks and he went back to Russia. His fake ID did not have his real last name. Nearly fourteen years later he showed up to do a job with his father and stopped into a club Avery was managing. She and her mother ran a few clubs back then. Her mother ran Gina’s and Avery ran Satin. Sacha went into Satin on a whim for melancholy’s sake, I would guess, and found Avery. Then he found his daughter and that was it. He moved to Vegas same day. Avery and Sasha look more like sisters than mother and daughter and since Sasha spent more tim
She had avoided all phone calls from her parents and her grandfather. Sonny had sent her a message asking her to come back but she had ignored it and buried herself in her work. She had put in a hard night, and she’d kept her game face on but right now, all she wanted was to go to bed and forget the last ten hours. Achilles motioned to her as she prepared to exit the building through the staff entrance. They were the last two on the premises and he’d just completed a final sweep of the interior of the club and the storerooms. “What is it?” She yawned. He held up his phone which synced to the security cameras outside. “Rin Allegretti is parked in an escalade near the staff entrance. I’m presuming he is here for you. Did your father arrange something?” “Damn, I haven’t even looked at my phone since I walked in here last night at nine. I knew it was going off, but I ignored it.” She paused not wanting to step outside. “Do you think he’s going to shoot me?”
She felt him unbutton her seatbelt and yank her hard across the width of the seat onto his lap in one quick movement and she shrieked with his action. “What are you doing?” “Shut up,” he gripped her chin and searched her face, “did you really think you were going to walk out of the house and my life and there be no repercussions?” She swallowed at his words. His life? “No, topolina, there will be hell to pay for what you’ve put me through the last several hours. Two phone calls from your grandfather, one from your father, who I might add I should have guessed was your father. What threw me was he told me you were twenty-nine and when I met you on the weekend you said twenty-eight so I’m cutting myself a bit of slack.” She opened her mouth to say something, but he covered her mouth with his hand. “Which part of I don’t want you to talk do you not understand?” He stared at her, the warmth he had looked at her with yesterday in the office noticeably a
She moved straight to the kitchen and flung her purse on the counter and began digging through the pantry for ingredients. She needed something sweet, but she also wanted to beat the shit out of something. She twisted her hair up into a ponytail and grabbed a hair tie from her purse and twisted it around her hair before digging through the fridge noting all the ingredients there. Someone had gone shopping. Sasha heard the steps of Rin’s tread as he followed her and moved to the espresso machine. The counter housed the espresso machine and an old-fashioned coffee maker she was sure Sonny bought in the seventies, but it still worked. She had never tried to use the espresso machine as both she and Sonny were happy with her brewed coffee. Or so she thought. “I brought Sonny an espresso with his supper last night. He was up until midnight. I realized I made an error in judgement on his caffeine tolerances. He told me the machine hadn’t been used since Nonna died. It’s a sh
Sasha squealed as Rin dropped her on her feet in the shower stall and ripped her dress right over her head. He took in her lacy bra and panties set and whistled wolfishly at her. He trailed his fingertip along her collarbone and down the swell of her breast. “Your body is something else,” he put his other hand along her rounded ass and squeezed it. Then he stepped back, “now for your punishment.” “My punishment?” she blinked as his demeanor changed. “Yes. You need to learn to respect the head of the household and the rules of the family.” “Rin,” she protested before stumbling over her feet as he pushed her under the water jets and turned the water on. She thought he had carried her up here for sex, even if it was just a quick roll in the sheets. She shrieked as cold water ran over her body. “It’s fucking cold.” “My bad,” he gave her a look which told her he knew what he’d done as he reached an arm past her to adjust the water temp. “Take the bra and pan
She set a cup of espresso and glass of water on Sonny’s nightstand and met his guarded gaze with one of her own. She was irritated Rin had followed her and refused to give her space. She was being watched for the full day, according to him. “Hi Sonny.” “Look who decided to come back. Oh, wait, you didn’t decide. You got dragged back.” He said spitefully. “I’m sorry I got you in trouble,” she whispered sitting on the edge of his bed, careful to avoid his leg. “She deserved it and we both know it. I also wasn’t keen on learning you and Rin were sneaking around behind my back. A warning would have been nice. Had you stayed here and been part of the conversation with your grandfather it would have gone better.” “I don’t think so,” she blinked tears away knowing Rin was watching them from the doorway. “Sonny, we fucked up not having security here. You told dad some time ago you fired your team. He didn’t realize Rin didn’t know and didn’t have you watched. D
Her grandfather’s face lit up the screen and she could absolutely understand why Angie had commented about the man’s nose hair. He was so close to the camera it was frighteningly displaying every pore on his ruddy skin. “Dedulya,” she made a face from where she sat on Rin’s lap, embarrassed he wouldn’t let her up and had insisted she stay seated right where she was while the call connected. “You need to back up from the screen. It’s too much. It’s an entire wall of your face. It is a face I love but I want to see less of just it and more of you as a whole.” He leaned back in his seat and adjusted the camera, “better?” “Yes.” “You look comfortable,” he gave a pointed look to where she sat behind Rin’s desk. “Not particularly,” she didn’t bother to lie. “Then why sit there?” “Her choices have been removed for the day,” Rin said bluntly. “It is a personal matter we are working through.” “May I remind you Rin, she is my granddaughter.” “