Todos os capítulos de RUIN ME: ENEMY DADDY: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 35

THE LEDGERSOFIA POVKatya stood in the small office at the back of the safehouse, her laptop open on the desk, hands trembling slightly as she gripped a small data drive between her fingers like it might burn her."What is this," I asked, pulling my jacket tighter around myself, the cold of the room nothing compared to the dread already building in my chest."I took it from my father's office weeks ago." Her voice shook, exhaustion and fear tangled together. "Before I left to warn you about the message. I've been too scared to look at it properly until now."Alessio moved to stand beside me, Nikolai close behind, both of them alert despite the late hour."Show us," Alessio said quietly.Katya plugged the drive into her laptop, her fingers hesitating over the keyboard for a long moment before she finally opened the files. Rows of encrypted data filled the screen, dates and numbers and names stretching back decades, financial records more detailed than anything we'd managed to piece to

THE GRANDFATHER'S HANDSOFIA POVI held the note in my hands long after Alessio pulled it down from the door, the paper trembling with the shake in my fingers, the elegant handwriting somehow more terrifying than if the message had been scrawled in blood.Hiding only delays the inevitable.I read it again and again, trying to find some edge of exaggeration in it, some empty threat dressed up in formal language to make it sound more impressive than it actually was. But nothing about the calm, careful tone felt empty. It felt certain. It felt like a man who had never once needed to raise his voice to get exactly what he wanted."He knows this address." My voice came out thin, barely steady. "He knows everyone here. He cut the power himself, or had someone do it, just to prove he could reach us whenever he wants.""We don't know that for certain," Alessio said, though the tightness in his jaw told me he believed it just as fully as I did.

THE HEIRSOFIA POVThe new safehouse sat further outside the city than anywhere we'd stayed before, surrounded by trees instead of concrete, the kind of isolation that should have felt safer but mostly just felt lonely. Alessio found me in the small kitchen staring at a cup of tea I hadn't touched, the folder Rosalind had given him sitting open on the table between us."There's something else you need to know," he said quietly, pulling out the chair across from me. "About Stefan Volkonsky.""The grandson," I said. "Your father's new contact mentioned him. Katya mentioned him too, when she told me about the marriage plan.""It's more than a loose plan." Alessio's jaw tightened, the careful way he said it already telling me this was going to hurt before he said another word. "He's been groomed for this since childhood, Sofia. Trained specifically to inherit the entire Bratva network once your grandfather eventually steps aside. Disciplined. Dangerous