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My entire body tightened, even though I already knew Leonid wouldn’t leave this alone I’d seen the excited glint in his eye as I took Lina out of his bar

“I don’t need you or your brother interfering”

Nikolai snorted and leaned back on the wall, crossing his ar

“He’s like a dog with a fucking bone over having you join the ranks” He shook his head “I don’t get his obsession with you, but he holds you in high regard and will use whateveryou in”

“And he plans on trying to use her as collateral to force my hand” I didn't phrase it like a question, because I knew that was the outcome Leonid saw I knew the way the fucker’sit started to feel like this itch under my skin

“I don’t think you understand the obsession my father has with that woman Because he knows you want her, because you couldn’t control yourself, he won’t stop until he ” I saw aabout how fucked up his father was ale “He wants totruth of the matter” Dhtened With readiness I was already walking on a razor’s edge and trying to controlthreat—of what Leonid wanted with Lina

I un

“Do you understand what I mean, Arlo? Do you understand what my father does to women?”

I gritted my teeth I knew

“He’s a savage toward the fairer sex Fucking deplorable”

I was surprised to hear the venoh they may not have cared for the man in a father/son sense, I always assumed they had some kind of respect for him It was very clear they didn’t

“He’ll destroy her, Arlo, and I don’t mean end her life in the most humane, painless way possible He’ll beat her down h that he can form into whatever vision he sees fit And when he’s the only thing that she can grasp on to, when he has you right where he wants you, he’ll destroy you too”

I was seething with rage, and there was no way I could hide gression and warning left me

Dmitry smirked, but it didn’t hold the aa hand on Lina made me want to desecrate the entire city of Desolation To think that soht, e

“Our father needs to be taken out, Arlo And because you now have a direct link to hih your woman, because she’s a threat and you know ets what he wants, which is now both of you, she won’t be safe”

I curledthis because you want power, D this because your father is psychotic and destructive, becoiving a handout si black and soulless as mine”

Dhed and looked over his shoulder, which had Nikolai chuckling as well “As much as we’d like to take out the old fucker ourselves, show hirew up, you kno our world works” He looked back at me “It would be bad form for us to have a personal hand in it But you’re the best of the best A real coldhearted bastard, aren’t you? You could take him out and make it look like he just disappeared Poof,” he said as he curled his hand into a fist in front of his face

I turned fro to fucking ith Dmitry or Nikolai I didn’t want to make back-alley deals with them This wasn’t even about the Bratva or their Pakhan I couldn’t give a shit about Leonid and his fucked-up morals My only concern and priority was Lina

I turned to face therowled out, “She’s mine”

D “Yeah, I think you irl and you pulverized his fucking hands” Nikolai started laughing even harder this tiht He was a touchy bastard and doesn't knohat the word ‘no’ means”