Anatoly had only just warned him this could happen. Why hadn’t Nicolai taken precautions? He could have posted a guard or something. Enforcers milled about inside the room. There were hushed whispers and conversations in Russian, but for the most part Nicolai was left alone to puzzle things out. ...
Kira started to giggle. She smothered the sound against Viktor’s chest. He nuzzled her affectionately.“Maybe they will go away?” he suggested.The knock sounded again. This time it was louder. “Kira?”Kira froze. The old fears came flooding back. “That’s my father.”“What do you want, Berezin?” Vikt...
This was not how he had planned his first night at home with Trisha. He felt too dizzy and sick to even get out of bed. He now had three sutures in the cut above his eye, and Trisha was busy waiting on him as though she were a maid and he an invalid.“Here you go,” she said warmly as she set a tra...
Fedor asked softly as he moved through the room. Veronika nearly burst through the door and ran to her father’s arms, but there was blood all over his face. She peered through the crack and pressed her hand to her mouth. No doubt that was Dmitri’s blood. “Safe where you can’t get to her,” Kaz sai...
Every time a loud car went by outside her house, she ran to the window to see if it was Sasha or one of his friends coming to make good on their threats. Not that she really understood what the threat was. Finally she retreated to her kitchen. Max relaxed in a corner while...
Fridays and Saturdays always tested his patience, but with the club now open for lunch, he decided to pop in and see how things were going. Only the tables directly around the main three dance platforms were open. As business grew, Erik would expand that, but he didn’t wan...
Tonight was a very simple contract. Shoot to kill. In fact, had it not been for the oddity of the other night, Kirill would have been alone. The alley’s rank smell made Kirill wrinkle his nose. Not that the scent of an alleyway deep in the city was ever pleasing, but there...
He couldn’t seem to latch onto any one thought. Yakov had never left. Yakov had tried to kill Flynn. Yakov had intended to kill Grigori as well. And now Yakov was dead. The carousel of horror went round and round inside his skull. Anson was shaking his shoulder, but it was...
He set the bowl of stroganoff he’d brought on the empty dresser top and took a look around the room.It was difficult to say with any accuracy how well this place represented her. It was obvious that nobody had stayed in this room for a long while. There was a fine coat of dust on the furniture, a...
Maggie felt more than a little exhausted. How long had she been here? It was impossible to know since there was no clock in the interrogation room and they’d taken her phone.“This will go much easier for you if you just answer our questions and tell us what we want to know,” Forrester said irrita...
She felt completely wrung out without even knowing why. Dimitri had said that he loved her. Shouldn’t she be over the moon about that?She sipped rich black coffee from her mug and had the odd thought that it was really too bad there wasn’t a Russian café that served the rich black coffee she’d gr...
The man worked all the time. In fact, he was almost never home. And when he did come home, it was to eat, shower, and then go back to work. Occasionally he slept, but that was usually in his study on the couch.Tori wandered through the upstairs hallway. There were only two suites on the fourth fl...
She half hoped he would, and yet dreaded his appearance. What if he had discovered something bad when he’d spoken with her father? The night air was cool on her cheeks. The spicy scent of the tree was almost overwhelming. Her butt was just starting to go numb when she hear...