Meeting Berta"You're a woman," I said, confused, and looked at Nikolay. "She's a woman.""In theory," Nikolay replied with a half-smile before looking at her."Careful, darling," the woman warned. "If you say things like that, you could hurt others' feelings, and if you hurt mine, I could even remove the men who care for your brother.""Mike?""Do you know how my brother is? Have you seen him? Please, tell me how he is!" I almost begged, and my desperation was more than evident.A smile spread across the woman's face before she glanced at Nikolay."You should be careful with your woman, Nikolay. Who knows what could happen if it's discovered that the wolf has nothing less than a sheep for a wife...""She's still learning," Nikolay indicated in a tense tone before looking at me. "I need a favor.""And I need to know something; I suppose our honesty deal still stands, doesn't it?"I sat down slowly, watching as a sly smile crept onto Nikolay's lips."Of course, but first let me introdu

Tense MeetingNikolay"Who's going to tell me what the hell is going on here?" I asked, with all the present brothers seated in front of me.I looked at each of the faces present, and none of them met my gaze. I glanced at Will, who wasn't even looking at me either."Not even my vice president?" I asked, staring at him intently.Will's look let me know that we had to talk later."I'll do it," Sergei said, standing up. He looked at me with dark and vacant eyes. "I want Petrov's sentence to be applied to Dimitri.""What's the reason you want such a gruesome death sentence applied, which is only used in case of betrayal? If that's the reason, he'll die today, but brother, if that's not the reason…" I sighed, before looking at Sergei and simply saying, "you know I can't approve the sanction.""He kidnapped my wife and sold her to the fucking trafficking line in Mexico! He sold her like she was a damn thing, she's probably dead or being raped, who knows! Tell me if that doesn't warrant the

Doubts and answers"You're his younger brother, he loves you, and if he knew you were in trouble, I'm sure he'd want to help you," Bodgan responded with absolute certainty."Levy stopped being my brother when he left the gang," I said automatically, that was my instant response to any mention of that bastard; I had perfected it incredibly quickly over the months following his departure.It still hurt to say his name, I didn't think it would ever stop hurting."And he suffered a lot because of it. I'm not telling you what to do, I don't want to get killed, but as a member, I have a voice, and I'll only say this once: Levy loves you, he loves all his younger brothers, each and every one," he emphasized, and I was sure he only didn't say his name so I wouldn't jump across the table to break his neck. "He just wanted a better life away from all this, better opportunities for his family, and you condemned him for it. He was wrong, yes, very wrong, but there are two sides to every story.""A

Bad memories “That man is gone, he left, and I'll never let him come back. He's in hell, burning for the things he did, and I'll send every one of those sons of bitches who want to achieve what he couldn't straight to him," he growled. "Let him try; I won't let them get to you again," I looked into her large eyes. "I should have been there when they tried to enter this house; they shouldn't have been able to reach you. I'm sorry, Margaret."“Don't be," she said softly as she watched my hands cover hers, "but I need answers. Who was he? I need to know, I deserve to know."I wanted to spare her as much bitter pill in her condition, but she insisted with her stubbornness.“That man you already know, his name is Fernando García, and he works for a guy named Arnold Kraus.“Why?" She looked dismayed.“Because Mike stole from them and messed up their deliveries too. I took you, so any blow against you falls on me, and since your brother still hasn't sorted his shit out, all the blows come a

The older brotherThinking about it still gave me chills, especially with the suspicion that this child could be his. I wasn't sure if that mistake would ever change, but I was grateful not to have to see him again and hoped I wouldn't.I just regretted not being there to dance on his grave when he finally got himself killed.The thought made me happy, mostly because I always thought I would die of sadness being married to him and that he would dance on my grave when he finally killed me for betraying him and managed to get everything to go his way, as he always did.If I hadn't left him, by now I would be dead, I couldn't be more sure.I didn't even have to think about Fernando, he meant nothing to me, he was just a dark and bitter memory that appeared from time to time in my mind to torment me.The only one I worried about right now was Mike, despite his screw-ups; I didn't want him to die, I didn't want to lose my only brother, and even though he had done so many stupid things over