We all got into different cars and headed to the airport to pick up our father. His plane had just landed in the country, and it was private, so we hoped that Maxim wouldn’t realize that he was in the country.But he had assured us that Maxim knew the ins and outs of Russia in a way that we didn’t know the ins and outs of Italy, so he would probably realize that we were in the country before he even set his feet on the ground.I didn’t know how a man who was almost the same age as Carlos had built such a huge empire that he could command with just one word. He had connections everywhere, and he could manage to do anything. With that kind of power, I would be dangerous.He was, but he was the kind of dangerous that was discreet. He didn’t show off, but he didn’t hide it either. He didn’t announce it, but he didn’t keep it quiet. He just existed, and he only showed his true colors when he wanted.I could see what my sister saw in him. He was different from Alfonso. He was able to contro
Salvatore, Carlos, and I were the only ones in Russia. I had already had enough of my three brothers lecturing me about how I had fucked up by going on a drug binge. They didn’t know the pressure that came with staying close to a man like Maxim.He was very unpredictable and could kill you with a snap of his fingers, especially because he didn’t know who I was. I was very confident in my ability to fight off any threats that came my way, but the Rossi name also came in handy.It made people afraid to touch me, which would be the case with Maxim. He wouldn’t risk a war between the Italian and the Russian mafia, so I knew he wouldn’t kill me without good reason.But I couldn’t even tell him who I was, and it was really getting on my nerves that he could snap and suddenly kill me. Maybe it was the line of cocaine that I had snorted that week that made me feel that way.But I felt trapped for a moment, and it felt like it was either him or me, and I decided that it was him. When I had cal
“Why did you kick your right hand away? What are you going to do? Are you going to assault me?” She asked, and a look of disgust showed on my face.That wasn’t something I would do, forgive, or allow any of my men to do. If they did, they were to be exiled and killed from the Bratva. That was such a disgusting thing to say.But the fact that she said told me something about her. She was Russian, and she thought that was what the Bratva did. That meant she had been around when other Pakhan was still ruling. He was that type of man.I heard so many stories from men who would give anything to bring him back to life just to kill him again. It made sense that she knew him because she was much older than me. She could be my mother, and yet, she was stupid enough to cross me.“I don’t do that, beautiful. Didn’t you hear? I changed the rules after the other Pakhan died. I removed slavery and the sale or exchange of flesh. That’s a disgusting trade that should not exist in the first place. Tha
It didn’t take long for Vadim to break. It was very pathetic how he caved under pressure. He couldn’t even take a little bit of pain. He spilled his guts every chance he got. He cried like a baby, and fainted a couple of times.Nikita woke him every single to he could torture him some more. He was the first man we had tortured who was that easy to break. Some women had even held out longer than he did. He bled like he had a can full of blood in his body that was ready to be popped open.I wanted to laugh at him, but nothing was funny about all he had put us through all those years. To think he was nothing but a cry baby who could easily be scared by a little pain was very disappointing to say the least. I couldn’t believe we had been duped by a man who was that weak.It was very pathetic.He told us that he had been sent to destroy our reputation to ensure there was no one who would want to work with us after they found out we killed our close associate. He then admitted that he had b
“You have no narrow down who you are talking about. There are many people who have crossed me, and I have skinned them for it. I always keep souvenirs. I hate liars and people who think they can outsmart.”“Don’t we have someone in the basement who tried to outsmart me for years, and his time came?” Nikita asked.She spilled the tea she was spilling, and she looked like she wanted to cry.“I’m sorry. I am so sorry.”“What are you sorry for, beautiful lady?” Nikita asked.“For…for spilling tea…for everything.”She didn’t want to say anything in case we didn’t know what she had done. She was still acting like a fool and lying. I hated torturing women, but I wasn’t above it either. If she didn’t willingly tell me what I wanted to know, I was going to have to do it.Nikita never crossed that line, but I had no morals.“Do you think you are smarter than me?” I asked.She shook her head and looked at the floor.“See, I think you do. There is no way you took my car and you thought I would no
“You thought you would kill Morozov and frame me for the murder by taking my car and sending him a text saying it’s me going to his house because you know I use multiple burner phones. I am not stupid.”“He was the only person I cared about in the alliance, and I will not let you walk out of here a free man, thinking you have one over me. I will make you pay for everything you have done, and you will soon realize why people fear me so much.”“You fear me too. You just pretend you don’t, and for a moment, you even lost that fear because you realized I would never touch you as long as you held that video over my head. Now that it’s gone, I am curious about what you will do.”He started walking backwards, thinking he would get away and be able to escape because he had men who were holding guns at us. He should have asked them to cover up so that we would not discover which gang they came from. That was a mistake he made, and he was going to regret it.That was one of the many reasons why