All Chapters of The Mute Bride For The Don: Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

Vanya.Ivan brought me somewhere I’d never seen before. Some sort of expensive, weird-looking place with dangerous-looking people that could pass as a casino and a sprawling club. One look at it and I knew it wasn’t accessible to just anyone and probably catered exclusively to Moscow’s underworld.Even before we stepped inside, the atmosphere outside told me everything I needed to know. There were enormously built men lining the entrance, with guns displayed fearlessly on their waists, and most of the men moving in and out of the door looked even weirder.Some had scarred faces, shaved heads, and unlike Ivan, who only had tattoos from half of his thigh upward to his waist and the side of his neck to his shoulder blade, they had hideous-looking tattoos sprawled across major areas of their skin.Some had shaved heads and spiky hair in some parts; others had long, braided hair. A few of them smoked openly, watching everyone who passed with the same flat, assessing stares.Marco follo

“And not just that,” he continued, slowly. “She’s my wife-to-be.”He released the woman’s hands immediately, reaching for mine instead and deliberately lifting it. She glanced downward at our intertwined hands and then the ring, and her eyes widened, disbelief and anger flashed in her eyes, and for the first time since she started to speak, she truly looked at me, then back at Ivan.“You can’t be serious,” she scoffed. “Did you not say that you had no interest in marriage? That you’d never want anything long-lasting with anyone…”“Whether I had an interest before or I’m developing it now, it has nothing to do with you, right, Serena?” Ivan cut her off, his voice low and daring as he glared at her.Her lips trembled.“Answer me, Serena,” Ivan said sharply, calling her by name.She looked at him for a long moment, glared at my hand, then turned on her heel and walked away without another word.Ivan guided me to a quiet seating area slightly removed from the main floor.“I’ll be back in

“Say to whom? That girl?” she asked, feigning innocence. “What would I say? We’re not even friends. I don’t even know the girl. I went to freshen up and she was there. Just a coincidence…”“Cut the bullshit.” I sneered. “She wouldn’t have run off like that if you had not said something to her,” I said. “And it’s obvious that the only person she spoke to in there was you, so tell me what the hell you said to Vanya!”Serena sighed, finally dropping the act. “I simply told her the truth. That she’s simply a replacement. A convenient one for now. That’s all.” She studied my face. “Isn’t that the truth? Ivan! You can’t possibly be taking a girl like that as anything permanent…”Anger spiked through me. I glanced around, clenching her wrists tightly enough to make her wince, and gritting the words out to her. “If it weren’t for old times’ sake, I would have done something you would not have expected of me.”Her face paled. I released her hands sharply and moved quickly to find Vanya. I c

Vanya.I woke up enveloped in the solid warmth of another body.For a long second, I registered the weight of Ivan’s arm across my waist and the steadiness of his breathing against the back of my neck. He’d cuddled me all night long, and I wasn’t going to deny how good it felt.A smile tugged on my lips as I fought a giggle.Hell. It was more than bliss.Was this how love felt? Was this what it meant to be in love? To wake up next to him every morning without a single worry in the world. To be at peace, to feel bliss?I pressed my lips tightly together as I slipped out from under his arm as gently as I could and found my way into the bathroom.The first thing I came across in Ivan’s large bathroom was my reflection in the large mirror.It showed the faint marks from the previous night still visible on my throat and as I discarded my clothes, turned on the water, and stepped under it, letting the heat work away the last of the tension from my shoulders, the bathroom door opened behind

“Did money make you speak? I can see that you are living so well. I can see that life is so good for you. So fucking comfortable. And you never once thought about your family. The same family that raised you, Vanya. Yet you never even cared how the rest of us have been managing!” “Kudos, Vanya. Kudos. You’ve risen and forgotten exactly who made you who you are today. Now you are with the Don, and you are living large…” “What the hell are you talking about?” I cut him off, increasingly mad at not only the way he’d grabbed me, but the filthy words that were coming out of his mouth. “Father sold me off, all because of you! All because he wanted to make you everything and give everything that belonged to my mother, to you and Jessica!” “If anyone is to be blamed, it’s you and your mother, so don’t you dare blame me for anything! Don’t you dare put that on me!” “After all, hasn’t Father not gotten anything yet?! He got the money for selling me off…” Arman laughed darkly, and for a seco