Total pages in book: 97
Estimated words: 92133 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 92133 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
Blood seeped at the corner of Bethany’s mouth, and I kept my gaze on Oleg. I didn’t know what the hell was going to happen. Leo was hurt badly. Nathan, I don’t even know why he was here, but he was also bleeding. This was a trap. Andrei wasn’t going to come and save me. He had his whole territory to think about.
“I think it’s time for us to send a message to Andrei,” he said.
He clicked his fingers to a soldier and ordered him to come closer.
I didn’t like this.
Nathan started to thrash in his binds and I watched as they covered his mouth, landing blows to his body. This couldn’t be good. My hands were still tied. I couldn’t fight back.
Oleg moved behind me and pulled me to my feet by my hair. A scream left my lips, and then he hit me hard, sending me to the floor, dazed. He wasn’t done with me as he pulled me to my feet once again. I couldn’t stop the yelp as he pulled at my hair again.
“Andrei, I’ve got your pretty little wife. I suggest you come and get her, because she’s just too tempting to ignore.” His hand ran down the front of my body, and this time I did scream. I didn’t stop, trying to fight against him, begging him to stop.
I hated myself, especially when he threw me to the floor, and then he was on top of me. Keeping my legs together, I looked at him with fear. His hands went to my neck and he started to choke me. I struggled against him, fighting with all my might, desperate for him to let me go, and when he did, I sucked oxygen into my mouth. Deep and hard, and desperate.
“He’s not going to come,” I said between pants. “Andrei will never come for me. He won’t.”
“We will see.”
Chapter Twenty
Andrei
Oleg had taken up residence on the border between our territories.
I wasn’t there to stop the attack. Rage had gotten word to us that Demon had changed the plan, brought it forward by a day. While my wife had been hunted down, I’d been with Ivan, watching as Demon and the rest of his men took their last breath. The deal was done. Rage, while I watched, was voted by his club to take over as President of the Evil Savages MC. To start peace once again between the club and Ivan, there was going to be a wedding. Lottie would be marrying Ivan’s brigadier of choice, and as they were shaking hands, I got the call.
Leo had told me what happened. Told me his exact location where they’d been pushed off the road, but Leo hadn’t stopped. He’d followed them, giving me the place where Oleg had taken Adelaide. My wife. The love of my life.
Ivan was with me, as was Terrance and even Slavik. They were there as I watched the video Oleg sent to me. I was already near him and my grip tightened on the cell phone. My hands were still covered in blood. Ivan and Slavik said nothing to me.
“He’s dead,” I said, finally speaking up. “I don’t care what I have to do to make amends, I will kill him. He will die tonight.” He hurt Adelaide.
Ivan nodded his head. “He doesn’t know Slavik and I are with you. We will have to be careful about this.”
I shake my head. “No.”
“You want Adelaide to come out of this alive?” Ivan said.
“He wants my territory. Mine is the border between the MC, the mafia, and the Cartel. That’s what he wants. He’s probably in talks with them to broker some kind of deal.” I’d already figured out what Oleg wanted—power and money.
Attempting to remove Ivan gave him a shot at the crown, at the title of Pakhan. By taking my land, it would connect him to Ive’s, which would bind three territories to him, and a whole host of power. Slavik’s would be the hardest to take over as his was the most obscure. I guess he didn’t see Victor or Peter as any real threat.
My hands shook with anger. Adelaide had once again been hurt. I would kill everyone involved with her death, including Bethany.
It didn’t take a genius to work out that she was the one who pointed at Nathan, told of his true identity. I wonder if she even knew he was a hit man. Either way, she would have figured out he was working for us, and that would have put him in danger as well as Adelaide. Bethany was going to die today. It would seem today was a day for spilling blood. My enemy’s blood.
“I go in first and alone,” I said.
“That’s suicide,” Slavik said. “We can storm the whole building.”
“No. That would put Adelaide at risk.”