All Chapters of CAPTIVE SINS: Chapter 41 - Chapter 45

"The men said they saw strange people when Konstantin was being lowered to the ground," Xavier said as both of them walked toward the car.Dimitri nodded. He had expected it. He had known the moment he confirmed Konstantin's burial date that certain people would show up, drawn to the event the way wolves were drawn to anything that smelled like weakness or opportunity. He had already instructed his men to track them quietly. He would get the report later.Right now he had somewhere else to be.They got into the car. Dimitri started the engine and pulled out of the church area without a word. The silence settled between them immediately, thick and loaded the way it always was when they were alone together. At least at the penthouse there were other people, other sounds, other things to look at. In the car there was nothing. Just the two of them and the road and every unresolved thing sitting in the air between them pretending not to exist.It was awkward in a way Dimitri refused to ack

Natasha pushed the phone away from her and then pulled it back.She stared at the email one more time.You met with Chloe, right?That was it. That was all it said. No name. No demand. No explanation. Just that one quiet sentence sitting there like it already knew the answer and was asking purely to let her know that it knew.She picked up her fork and set it down again.She was done eating. She had been done eating since the notification came in but she was still sitting here because getting up felt like admitting that this had properly rattled her and she was not ready to admit that yet.She opened the email and typed back.Who are you? Stop sending me cryptic messages and just tell me directly what you want from me. And how do you know I met with Chloe? Come out clearly or stop messaging me entirely.She sent it and put the phone face down on the table.Then she picked it up and looked at it again.Nothing. No reply. Of course no reply. Whoever this was only communicated on their o