Marked by the Mob: A Russian Mafia Romance
He dropped the weapon, the metal clattering against the concrete, the sound echoing loudly in the silence.
He looked over at his brother's body, at the lifeless form sprawled on the ground. A sense of unreality settled over him, a disbelief that it was finally over. After all the years of hatred and violence, after all the pain and suffering, it was finally over. His brother was dead. The danger to Alessia was over. With that final thought, darkness claimed him, and he slid down the wall, unconscious.
The rain began to fall in earnest then, as if the heavens themselves were weeping for the tragedy that had unfolded in the grimy alley. As Nicolai lay there, unconscious and vulnerable, the cit