LOGIN'Ok, what do we know?'
I ask my men as they sit around our meeting table.
Rory opens his laptop and shows the Bratva Principessa walking into the Houston Animal Centre wearing tight jeans and a backpack. She looks very young, with her stunning blonde hair tied up in a high ponytail and no make-up.
'She's doing her Intern Credit here at the Centre. Been attending for a week, and she'll be there for another three. If you want to take her, this is going to make it easy; she has two guards, and they are keeping it very low-key.'
I smile broadly.
'Stake it out. Get me the intel. I want to know everything about that Centre. Find us a way in, find us a way out the back, and I want that information so we can move in two days.'
My men nod and leave the room, and I go check on the alterations being done to the room I have selected to house the guest who is going to resent being kept here. I don't envisage any problems. She is a petite, delicate little princess, and I reckon it won't be hard to intimidate and subdue her so I can use her as a pawn against her father.
Pavel Khushanova is going to regret double-crossing my MC and me, and I smile at my reflection in the huge floor-to-ceiling window.
He thinks everything is going smoothly with his FBI friends.
He thinks the Mexicans and Colombians know nothing of his betrayal.
He thinks he has got away with handing over three of the biggest names in the underworld to the FBI.
He is about to find out that we are not as dumb as he believed.
'We have traces on Anderson, Manson and Raybin. What do you want us to do?'
Cormack asked, entering the office and sitting in one of the two leather sofas facing the windows, as I poured us both a glass of whisky.
'Dig up everything you can on the three of them, wives? children? mistresses? I want to know all of it.'
I say.
'Those three are going to suffer slow, painful deaths for betraying our country.'
I'm not particularly patriotic, but the thought of these men selling secrets to our enemies drives me insane, for some reason, and I want revenge. Cormack nodded and downed his whisky.
'What are we going to do with the girl?'
He asked, and I smiled back at him,
'Break her and make sure Pavel Khushanow sees it all.'
The following morning, Rory brings me the intel I need, and we make plans to snatch the girl the next day. They have bribed one of the workers to open a rear gate, and he will show us where the girl is working. It is a straight in and out extraction and should take no more than fifteen minutes.
We arrive at the Centre just before it closes and find the gate open and the guy standing in the shadows waiting for us.
'She will be walking down this path in about five minutes to collect her stuff before she leaves for the day.'
He says, pocketing the money we gave him and disappearing back into the shadows as quickly as he can. We stay in the black truck parked innocently beside the storage container, Cormack and I, watching the road and Liam, Michael, Connor and Callum in the back waiting for my order.
'Here she comes.'
Cormack hissed through his teeth as the blonde Russian girl sauntered down the road, not giving any attention to her surroundings. She had clearly not been taught to look out for herself, and that surprised me. I would have thought that, as the spoiled daughter of the billionaire Pakhan, he would have made her have a few lessons in basic survival skills. Lesson one: Watch your surroundings for anything unusual. I was quite sure that a black truck, with all its windows blacked out, was not something that would be parked on her walk each day. Glancing around, I talked to Rory, who was monitoring the area.
'All Clear, Boss, there's no one around. Those staff who are left are all in the office. It's Friday, and they want to get home and start their weekend.'
He chuckled, and I grinned back. This was going to be the easiest extraction we had ever done, and it would teach the Pakhan not to allow his most prized possession such freedom.
'Go.'
I whispered into my microphone, and my four men moved silently out of the back of the truck. Watching them closely, I was delighted to see that my plan went like clockwork. The girl did not know what hit her. The men grabbed her and injected the sedative before she could even struggle. Then, a blackout sack was placed over her head, and she was tossed into the back of the truck. My guys jumped in after her, and we backed out onto the road in five minutes. There was no evidence of her removal. Rory had disabled the cameras, putting them on a loop of nothing for half an hour, and they would return to normal viewing by the time we were on the highway.
At the compound, I carried her up to the room myself and laid her on the bed so I could look at her properly for the first time.
She was beautiful; there was no denying that. Her hair was the palest of blondes, and the faint flush on her cheeks was adorable. She was petite, but she had everything a man could want: pert little breasts and an ass just made for spanking.
'Fuck, what was I thinking? She was my prisoner, not one of the whores I occasionally picked up at the local bar.'
I thought, but my eyes still wandered hungrily over her slender form, and my cock grew hard thinking of all the things I wanted to do to her.
Ten years later.The sound of running through the villa made me look up from my laptop, smiling at the golden-haired boy who raced inside.'Papa, Papa, they're here.'He grinned excitedly at eleven-year-old Jean-Paul, who was growing into a handsome, caring young man, and looked at me with his mother's silver eyes. Almost immediately, his little sister Jayanne-Melissa, already becoming a stunning beauty with her mother's pale ash blonde hair and my brilliant blue eyes, panted out of breath. She was only nine years old and didn't have her brother's long legs, and she had her small arms crossed over her chest, pouting miserably.'Not fair, he always gets to tell you first.'Tears shone in her beautiful eyes, and I instantly stood and swung her into my arms, kissing the top of her head.'Should I break his legs so you will be able to beat him?'She giggled prettily as I strode towards the villa's main doors. 'Don't be silly, Daddy, you can't hurt Jean-Paul, that would be mean.'My heart
I stood in the doorway watching the man I had loved with all my heart shatter into a million pieces as he held the court papers and his eyes lifted to mine, tears streaming down his cheeks. 'Are you really going through with this? After everything we meant to each other?'I stared at him, the ice around my heart sealing it shut at his words.'You should have thought of that before you stripped me of everything, Maxime. You did this. You destroyed us. I hope you can sleep at night.'I turned and walked slowly up to my room. I was so weak I could barely stand, but the thought of food had me bending over the toilet, heaving my stomach up. Looking down at the family, something inside me withered and died. What was the point of fighting them?
'No, Maxime, you don't love me. You don't even respect me. I am not your equal because I am a woman. You have taken away my autonomy, my basic rights as a human being. You think this is because of my 'hormones', because I am ' hysterical.' You believe you can force your will onto mine because you are bigger and stronger and you know what is best. So, go ahead, kick down the door; it's your house after all, I am just your reluctant prisoner. You will be hearing from my lawyer directly; until then, I would be grateful if you left me alone.'She turned and went back into her room, leaving me with my heart shattered into a million pieces.'How could this have happened? Only this morning we had made love and talked about asking my parents to watch Jean-Paul while we went to Paris for a long weekend.'When the Supreme Commander had ordered me down to the clinic, I never in a million years expected to find Tavisha there about to abort our unborn child. All I knew was that I had to stop her
It could only happen to me.I was absolutely furious, but Maxime was delighted.The first time we had sex after I had birthed Jean-Paul, I conceived again. I did not want this baby. When I began to feel unwell in the mornings and took the test, I stared at the two lines in disbelief.'No, no way could this be happening to me. Not again.'I thought angrily. I wanted my life back. I had just started training again with the Unit, and this was going to spoil everything. Without telling Maxime, I made an appointment at the clinic under my maiden name. Nobody needed to know. I would have other babies in the future after a suitable lapse of time; I was only twenty-two, plenty of time to get pregnant again. It never occurred to me to share my decision; as far as I was concerned, what people did not know could not hurt them.
One year later.I gazed out of the patio doors of our new home. We had decided that we couldn't find a place exactly the way we wanted our home to be, so I bought this stretch of coastline and commissioned a large, airy villa to be built. It had been completed a month before our son Jean-Paul was born, and now I could watch my beautiful wife as she fed him out on the patio with the waves chasing each other as the tide came in. The scene was unbearably touching; Tavisha wore a flowing gypsy style white summer dress, and her pale golden hair hung almost to her hips, blowing gently in the breeze. She had pulled the top of the dress down so Jean-Paul could latch on to her nipple and suck greedily; he was a hungry little tyke for sure, and I actually felt a stirring of jealousy at the way he got to tug on those hard little buds and for the moment I could not. As if she could sense me watching her, she looked up at me, her silver-grey eyes glittering because she knew exactly wher
I knew the minute he touched me, I would give in. I was desperate for his touch; it was so difficult keeping up my anger when all I wanted was his strong arms around me. I knew it had not been his fault; what happened had been a terrible accident, my allergic reaction unforeseeable. It was my own pettiness that had fired my anger and kept it going when all I wanted was to feel him inside me. So, when he kicked my door down, I was secretly thrilled; I loved it when he got all macho and dominant and only just hid my smirk when he did not notice I barely fought back. When his touch set me on fire, my body responded instantly, and when he entered me, I climaxed so hard and so fast I literally saw stars.The rest of our honeymoon goes without a hitch; the sex is incredible, on the beach, in the sea, in every room in the villa, on every surface. We couldn't keep our hands off each other as our relationship healed. When we returned home, he met with his Officers without me; I told him I h
I lean back in my expensive, custom-made leather chair, steepling my fingers, narrowing my eyes at the man facing me. Pavel Khushanov is the Bratva Pakhan, and my MC has worked with them for decades. My father with his father, and my Grandfather with his Grandfather, the last two started things as
'What the fuck?'I am dragged from my lethargic state and shaken like a dog, then I am tossed onto the bed like a rag doll. 'Who the hell does this neanderthal think he is?'I react instinctively, slapping his face hard, but it makes no difference; he does not even blink, sneering at me, he tells
Getting back to the compound, I head for my room, feeling angry and frustrated.I do not want to marry a stranger, and I have tried everything to lose my damn virginity so I can prevent it, but my guards are used to my tantrums and always manage to cut me off before any 'damage' is done. I am not
Rory arrived ten minutes later, his bright carrot red hair stuck up all over his head as if he had stuck his hand in an electric socket. 'The bastard is going to double-cross you, Boss.'He says, plonking himself down on a chair and putting his laptop on my desk before flipping it open. Pressing







