Steve Palchuk Novels & Stories

Her retching fills the air as I stand there, almost frozen by the scene in front of my eyes. I sigh heavily, shaking my head. The craziest thing is that Stepan Orlov will get away with it. He's the heir of the Bratva in Oklahoma. He has every right to exercise his powers where the fuck he wants, and as the staff who are teaching him how to be the most brutal leader possible, how could we possibly punish him for being exactly that?

I took the stairs to the second floor and let myself into room 204. It was exactly what I expected. A bed. A desk. A window overlooking the parking lot. Nothing fancy. Nothing memorable. I set my suitcase on the bed and opened my laptop. The file was still there. The one my editor had sent. I'd read it three times on the bus, but I read it again. Every detail. Every name. Every accusation. Carter Development. Money laundering. Fraud. Bribery. The CEO at the center of it all. Daniel Carter.

As an advisor of course. "Are you sure?" asked Dantley to the meeting members, Steve who was also there was silent since he had been listening to what was being discussed, he was a friend of Daniel's and had become a master negotiator of Leopald's company but, besides that, he himself was Daniel's right hand man and was assigned by Daniel to look after Marteen. "We are sure, sir. Absolutely certain that we had no role in the sale of our ilegel," said Steve who was now leaning towards Daniel and had entered into the meeting conversation.

Nikolai's POV "The state of the Northern pack is in disarray. There has been a disorganized rearrangement of their distribution system..." I scribbled onto the paper, taking mental notes alongside. The pack's state had gone down, due to the recent increase in border rivalries. I needed to see to that. "There are measures we can take to reduce the number of inter-pack disputes... I've written them down." "Great job! You did well, Alan! Have Marcus see me as regarding that." He beamed at my praises. He was my newly appointed secretary.

Needless to say, that Alpha, was having it worse than the rest. Lucian Dannelly, my dear father-in-law has been going out most nights. He's close to the king, so he has been going often to visit him, and helping him keep order in the dungeons. My father-in-law has been retired since Ricky took over. But he can still throw a mean punch if needed.

Steve said. “I told you already, you did a great job, didn’t I?” Alex said. “I think you’re wrong sir, I still make a lot of mistakes, I’ve only been here for a year and—“ “Is that your decision?” Alex said. “I’m sorry sir,” Steve said. “What’s your name?” Alex said. “Steven McConnell sir,” Steve said. “Steven, or Steve, you worked in this company for a year, but strangely I found oddities in the expense data for more than a year,” Alex said.

Steve answered on the first ring, as if he had been waiting just to be dramatic. “Finally!” Steve’s voice boomed through the speaker. “I thought you ditched me for some glamorous man in a suit or something.” Kathalina rolled her eyes, but a small laugh escaped her lips. If only you knew, Steve, she thought wryly. If only you knew that the ‘glamorous man’ is actually my ex-husband, who suddenly decided to act like a real partner.

Julius was suddenly at my side, his face a mask of composure, but the tick in his jaw and the unease seeping through the bond told me he was concerned. “Do you want me to come with?” “I need you to run the meeting with Steve and Max about strategy. They’ll be at my office in fifteen minutes, go ahead with that and I’ll mindlink you if we need backup.” Steve and Max were directly below Dean in the chain of command, if anything, it was better if he was with them in the instance we ran into any trouble.

"I have more important things to deal with than executing you right now, Tell Halphas I agreed to make it quick for you, the man does like to draw out an execution." "You think we're going to let you do this?" Calista shakes her head, her claws elongating. "Our daughter is still Alpha of East River and we have the strongest warriors in the area." Eligor chuckles to himself, shaking his head but doesn't reply, stepping away from Zachariah's hand and continuing down the well worn path as though we're just out for a leisurely stroll and not in the middle of a battle. "Eligor, I challenge you for the leadership of the amalgamation of packs you name the Kingdom. Do you accept or are you a coward?

After speaking, he glanced at the half-eaten instant noodles in the bowl with some regret, stood up, and walked over to Jack, "Since you're not eating, let's go back and rest early. It's getting late. Come on, let's go together, hmm?" Hearing these words, Jack's mood was not only not smoothed over, but more dissatisfaction fermented in his heart. When did Steve become such a warm-hearted person? He was even helping Hazel speak now. Could it be... His scrutinizing gaze swept over Steve, then glanced at Hazel, but he couldn't erupt again. Steve was his friend and also the director of this advertisement. Even if there were really any problems between them, it would only be with that damn woman,