110

Nikolai

The first thing I do when I get back to the compound is find Tatyana. I can feel the adrenaline coursing through my veins. I had waited to confront her until Adalina was gone.

Tatyana is sitting in the kitchen at the island bar sipping a cup of coffee. She is dressed down today in jeans and a shirt. She looks disheveled like she hasn’t gotten any sleep. Now that Adalina is no longer here, I can let my dark side out. I grab Tatyana’s throat with one hand and apply pressure. She needs to know that I am no longer playing games with her.

“I just have one fucking question.” I get right in her face as I squeeze her throat.

“Nikolai, what are you doing? Let go of me!”

“Have you been working with Maxim? Did you help him kidnap Tatyana?” I am furious.

“No. Nikolai, of course not!”

“I am going to torture Maxim for answers, if he so much as hints that you two are working together, you are fucking dead!”

“Nikolai, I swear on my loyalty to you and the Bratva that I would never betray you.”