All Chapters of Blood And Betrayal : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

CHAPTER ONEIrina's POV The music downstairs was loud enough to rattle the windows. I pressed my pillows over my ears and tried to block out the chaos below. The laugher. The shouting. The occasional crash of breaking glass. The Volkov Bratva celebrated victories like the world was ending, and tonight they had reason to celebrate. Dimitri had secured the eastern docks, expanded his territory, and crushed his rivals without losing a single man.I should have been happy for him. I was happy for him. But I was also bone tired.Earlier, I had planned the party with the other house workers. Made sure everything was ready and well prepared to Dmitri's taste. Four years as his personal maid had taught me to read his moods better than I could read words on a page. I knew how he liked his tea. How he wanted his suits pressed. How he needed silence after violence. And tonight, he had ordered me to stay in the bedroom, away from the party, away from his men.“Stay in my room,” he had said,

CHAPTER THREEIrina's POV Three weeks had passed since that night.Three weeks of waking up and wishing it had all been a terrible dream. Of avoiding mirrors because I could not stand to look at myself. Three weeks of pretending everything was fine when nothing would ever be fine again.I had not seen Alexei since that morning. He disappeared the day after the party, and I was grateful. I could not face him. I could not look into those forest green eyes without remembering.Dimitri noticed something was wrong. Of course he did. He knew me too well. But I lied and lied and lied until even I almost believed my own words.It was just a stomach bug, I told him. Just exhaustion. Just stress.But it was not.The sickness came every morning now. I threw up until there was nothing left. I stopped eating because food made it worse. I lost weight I could not afford to lose.And I knew.Deep down in a place I did not want to look, I knew what was happening to me.I was pregnant.With Alexei's

CHAPTER FIVE Irina I stood frozen, watching the two brothers face each other like wolves circling for a kill.My heart pounded so hard I thought it might burst through my chest. My hands trembled. My legs felt like they might give out at any moment.This was my fault.All of this was my fault.I know." Alexei's said, his voice was quiet. "But the baby changes everything. You know it does. She is carrying my child, Dima. That makes her mine. That is how our world works.”Dimitri looked at his twin with hatred, his fist tightened. At first, I thought he was going to agree."Get out," he said quietly."She is carrying my child," Alexei said, his expression firm and unyielding."We're not entirely sure about that," Dimitri whispered, his voice shaking with rage he could barely contain."Neither do you," Alexei shot back.And like that war was declared in that moment. Not with words or weapons, but with the silence that followed. The silence of brotherhood dying.I watched the two men I