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MORETTI'S ESTATETraining HallThe mutters spread like a virus.“She’s the boss’s sister, of course Roan lost.”“No man’s gonna hit her seriously.”“Unfair fight from the start.”I stopped cold, the frost in my gaze shutting every mouth that dared move.“You think he let me win?” I asked softly, dangerously.Not one of them answered. But the doubt was written plain across their faces.“Fine,” I said, voice slicing clean. “If you want a comparison, then I’ll oblige.”A shadow moved forward. Nikolai. My Nikolai. He peeled off his shirt as he stepped onto the mat, muscle and scar and cold calculation carved into every line of him.The soldiers muttered again, uneasy this time.“That’s the Lucchese’s man.”“No...La Rosa Nera’s.”“Unfair, unfair-”“Unfair?” Nikolai’s voice rumbled low, a dangerous grin tugging at his mouth. “Then let’s even it ouCATALINA’S PERSPECTIVE SOCHI, RUSSIA – Week 4, Day 29 after the “death”The gym was a cathedral of violence.Floor-to-ceiling mirrors, black rubber mats, heavy bags swinging like corpses. Gavriil had turned the entire east wing into my personal coliseum: kickboxing ring in the center, Muay Thai pads, a cage wall for grappling, and a row of weapons I wasn’t supposed to notice yet.Today he brought me an opponent.A woman. Tall, cropped blonde hair, shoulders like a swimmer, eyes flat and professional. Former Spetsnaz, he said. Now one of his private trainers.Anya.She bowed slightly when she entered, no smile. Good. I didn’t want pleasantries.Gavriil leaned against the ropes, arms folded, scar livid under the harsh lights. He wore loose black gi pants and nothing else, watching me like I was about to perform for him.“Light contact,” he ordered Any
CATALINA’S PERSPECTIVE SOCHI, RUSSIA – The Month AfterGrief is a living thing. It eats first, then it sleeps inside you, waiting.For seven days I let it devour me.I stayed in bed, curtains drawn, the gold urn on the nightstand catching every sliver of light like a cruel joke. I didn’t speak. I barely ate. I let the tears come until my eyes swelled shut and my voice was nothing but gravel.Gavriil never left my side.He became something softer, something monstrous in its tenderness. He bathed me when I couldn’t move, hands reverent as he washed the salt from my skin. He carried me to the balcony when the room grew too small, cradling me like a broken doll while the sea wind whipped my hair. He pressed his face into my empty belly, inhaling like a man addicted, murmuring over and over, “Now you’re mine. Only mine. No one else inside you.”His obsession had turn
DANTE’S PERSPECTIVE SOCHI PERINATAL CENTER – Week 38I smelled like bleach and hospital floor wax. Gray maintenance jumpsuit, fake beard, cap pulled low. My hands shook only once, when I clipped the forged ID to my chest: Ivan Petrov, Sanitation ServicesThe rest of me was ice.Three weeks of drills in Voronin’s mountain bunker had burned the route into muscle memory. Thirty-four seconds, door to door. I could do it in twenty.I had been living in the hospital for forty-eight hours already, sleeping in the janitor’s closet, eating vending-machine sandwiches, watching the monitors Voronin had hacked into. I knew every nurse’s shift change. I knew which security camera looped for exactly 4.7 seconds at 19:45. I knew the exact moment Catalina’s water broke, because the entire eleventh floor lit up like a war zone.19:43. Dr. Morozova’s voice crackled in the tiny earpiece C
CATALINA’S PERSPECTIVE SOCHI, RUSSIA – Week 38The contractions started as a whisper, a faint tightening in my lower belly, like a hand gently squeezing, then releasing. I was in the library, curled in an armchair with a book I wasn’t reading, pretending to rest while Gavriil worked at his desk across the room. The first one came and went, mild enough to ignore. I shifted, hand on my belly, feeling our son stir. But the second hit sharper, a ripple that stole my breath. By the third, they were coming every ten minutes, repetitive, insistent.Gavriil noticed before I said a word. His head snapped up, eyes locking on my face as I winced. “Rosa mia?” He was across the room in an instant, kneeling beside me, hand pressing to my belly. “It’s time?”I nodded, gritting my teeth as another wave built. “Contractions. Mild, but… getting stronger.”He didn’t hesitate. He scooped me up like I weighed nothing, his
DANTE’S PERSPECTIVE EN ROUTE TO RUSSIA – Private Jet, 02:51 a.m.The call with Voronin ended with a click that echoed in my skull like a gunshot. I stared at the blank screen for one second; two; then hurled the phone across the cabin. It shattered against the bulkhead, pieces scattering like my fucking sanity.A son.We were having a son.And that psycho had my wife; my pregnant wife; in his goddamn lair.The jet’s engines roared beneath me, but it wasn’t fast enough. Nothing was fast enough. I paced the aisle, every muscle coiled like a spring ready to snap. Malcolm sat in the corner, eyes on his tablet, pretending not to notice the storm. Nikolai nursed a vodka, gaze distant.“Malcolm,” I snarled. “Call the tower. Tell them to clear everything between here and Adler. I don’t care who they have to ground.”“Already done, Don,” he said quietly. “We land in thr
ROMAN VORONIN’S PERSPECTIVE ST. PETERSBURG – Night after the galaThe call connected on the second ring.“Nico, speaker. Now,” I ordered the moment his voice came through.A soft click. Then Dante’s ragged breathing filled the line, raw as an open wound.“Roman,” Dante rasped. “Talk to me.”I leaned back in the leather chair, the phone in one hand, the other tangled in Cynthia’s dark hair as she knelt between my thighs. Her mouth was already on me, slow and deliberate, but I kept my voice perfectly steady.“She’s alive. Breathing. Strong. Week thirty-four and carrying well.” I paused, letting the words cut. “It’s a boy, Dante. You’re having a son.”Silence. Then a sound like a man being flayed alive.“Fuck!” Dante choked. “A son…”Nico cursed in Italian, low and vicious.I continued, merciless.“Her exact words: ‘Tell Dante I’m all right. We’re having







