St Leonards - Ayden

We arrive home and I immediately head to my father’s study. He needed to be informed of Killian’s doings.

As I near his study, I poise my arm to knock when Lev grabbed my hand. I peered up at my father’s most trusted man and he shook his head. “Your father is in a very important meeting with Moscow. Give him an hour or two.” He explained in his thick Russian accent and I nodded at this. Things in Moscow were escalating again, and it had distracted my father, to say the least. He told me he might have to go over there to placate the Pakhan’s but he dreaded to. My mother, of course, did not know about this. The last time my father went to Moscow, my mother had been touring Italy when a rogue mafia gang kidnapped her. They think I do not know about this, but people talked.

My mother was known as The Tortured Queen in mafia circles.

Taking the stairs up two at a time, I round the corner to my bedroom when I spot Kiara lurking abou