Cognac Vixen (Pushkin Bratva Book 2) by Nicole Fox

Author:Nicole Fox [Fox, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-18T18:30:00+00:00

37

IVAN

The front of the house is cleared out. Aside from two cars burning in the driveway, there is no one to stop Cora and me from climbing in my car and peeling out.

I call Yasha the minute we’re through the gates. “Get out of there as fast as you can,” I tell him. “I have Cora. We’re gone.”

“We’re working on it.” I hear faint yelling and commotion behind him, but it’s quieter than I would have expected. “Mikhail must have called off his guards. Either that or they abandoned him.”

Cora can hear Yasha on the speaker phone and she leans forward. “Mikhail and Alexander both disappeared the second the doors exploded,” she explains. “They left me with a guard, but I think they went into a panic room or took another exit or something. I don’t think they wanted me to see where they were going.”

“I wouldn’t be surprised,” I say to both her and Yasha. “On either account. They’re all fucking cowards.”

“Yeah, but if those cowards did escape, they’ll be coming straight for the mansion,” Yasha warns.

“I’ll take Cora somewhere else until things settle.”

“Copy that. See you on the other side, brother.”

The line goes dead and the car is oddly silent. Especially after the chaos of the last… shit, how long has it even been? Thirty minutes? An hour? My sense of time is warped. I have no idea how much time has passed since I first heard Cora’s scream through the necklace.

“Are you okay?” I ask.

She looks down in her lap. Her hands are folded together and there’s blood all over her knuckles. “In the last couple hours, I was woken up in the middle of the night, forced to get married, survived an explosion, and killed a man. Safe to say I’ve had better days.”

Cora takes a deep breath and turns to the window.

For a few quiet minutes, we just drive. Streetlights illuminate the car in red, yellow, and green. People living very different lives walk down sidewalks with their friends.

If things had been different, Cora could be with them. She could have been out there, just a normal girl. I want to ask if she’s thinking the same thing, but she’s clammed up with shock. The only thing that will fix that is time. Even though I want to scrub it all away from her. To take the pain myself.

I can’t. I just have to fucking wait.

Suddenly, she sits up. “This isn’t the way to the mansion. Where are you taking me?”

“My old penthouse in the city. It’s where I lived before my father handed the mansion over to me.”

She turns to me. I don’t look at her, but even in my peripherals, she’s too much. Her soft curves and strawberries-and-cream scent. Being this close to her after living without is intoxicating. It’s a fucking miracle I can even drive straight.

“You’ll be safe there,” I vow. “I won’t let anything happen to you.”

She settles back into the passenger seat and the tension consumes us once again.

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