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He saw the faint, desperate print of her small shoe where she had stood her ground. He walked over to the open door of the master bathroom, his footsteps heavy and uneven, and found the evidence that confirmed his terror: the forgotten, small tin of prenatal vitamins on the counter. Vladimir Volkov, the Don of the Russian Mafia, the man who had faced down armies and engineered global conflicts, stood alone in the empty, bloodied heart of his fortress. He was surrounded by the bodies of the men his wife had fought, but the two precious lives he lived for, Isabella and their twins, were gone.

Then Alex, Krasnov’s cousin, came back—half of his right leg missing and his brown hair gray—but alive. They did not talk about Krasnov. Sometimes, it seemed to Svetlana that what she had experienced in this snowbound, monster-infested village had been a bad dream. Andrei had been part of this dream, but he had receded into a haze of memory, becoming like a blurry photograph or a snatch of a familiar but elusive tune: something to feed the indefinite feeling of nostalgia that stole over her from time to time. Not when she was with her fiancé, though. This was here and now.

But I preferred this version. I wiped sweat from my forehead. The sun was warm, lacking the smog-choked humidity of New York. Everything here was green. Growing. Alive. It had been two years since Port Elizabeth. Two years since I pulled the trigger and ended Alexei Zakharov. Sometimes, it felt like a movie I had watched once and forgotten. Other times, I could still smell the gunpowder. Adrian Blackwood had been a warrior—cold, calculating. David Mitchell was just a man building a bench for his wife. I preferred him. I preferred this peace.

A new, dangerous chapter was about to begin. And somewhere in the city, Nikolai Zhukov raised a glass in silent toast to his newest acquisition. Dr. Alessia Russo was proving to be much more intriguing, and much lovelier, than he had expected when he'd heard that there was a doctor who had reached out to them. He smiled into his glass. The game was just beginning, and he loved a good challenge.

“You are American, mooncalf, get over it. You may have Russian blood, but you were born in the land of the fat, obnoxious and complacent.” “I am glad you think so highly of my heritage,” Anya snapped. She stuck out her tongue and crossed her arms. The engaged in a death glare match. “Enough, the both of you. I have had a long day’s work of herding animals and tending the trees, and I came home seeking peace, not squabbling,” Dmitri said. He sat beside the stove and began perusing his worn illicit copy of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and the Margarita, bought from a black market in Moscow.

The snow still fell outside the stone walls of the estate. It blanketed the estate in white silence, turning its violence white and its shadows soft. But inside the Dostoevsky household, nothing was quiet. The attempt on Andrei’s life had ignited a fire in the house—one that would burn slow, subtle, and deep.

“NOOO!” Vladimir screamed like a wounded lion. Horrified at what He just witnessed. His wife. The woman VLADIMIR SOKOLOV came to save was now lying lifelessly infront of him. No. She can’t die! She just can’t leave him. Never! He felt like someone cut ripped his heart put of his chest. His world stopped. His Soul froze. Everything inside VLADIMIR was shattered seeing the most important woman of his life lying in the pool of her own blood.

“Just... just stay with me.” The bed creaked as his weight pressed against it. He let her arms crawled around her waist as he moved closer. At that moment, nothing mattered. All he could feel was the sparks running through their body. He found solace in their silence, and he realized how dull his life was without Zheira. He’s been a wreck: carrying the guilt of killing his precious sister and bearing the life of the people he wasted for petty revenge. Loud knocks broke the comfortable silence surrounding the room; it awakened Vladimir from a deep stupor. He stared at Zheira for a while, memorizing every trace of her features.

“My health condition is none of your business, so if you have nothing interesting to say to me, please dispose of it, I want to rest” Vladimir went to sit behind his desk as he put his hand on his forehead, he felt so tired and had only one desire, to lie down and sleep forever. He understands a little their faces, he already had the same with the servant earlier. He is undernourished and his life may be in danger.