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Chapter Twenty seven
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2026-05-15 02:50:42NIKOLAI DRAGUNOV
The Bratva's inner circle met on Thursday mornings.
It had always been a men's meeting, not by explicit rule but by the nature of what it was, who sat around the table, what got said. When I walked in with Irina at my side the morning after her return, the silence that followed was the kind that occupies a room before it decides what to do with itself.
Irina sat down. She looked at the men around the table the way she looked at everything directly, withou
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