Shattered Throne: A Dark Mafia Romance: War of Roses Universe (Mice and Men Book 3) by Lana Sky

Author:Lana Sky [Sky, Lana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lana Sky
Published: 2021-05-17T18:30:00+00:00

15

Evgeni

I wait for her to laugh, proving her morbid statement to be yet another joke.

She doesn’t.

So, I bite. “He wants to blow up the city. Why?”

A knowing smile replaces her wide-eyed expression. In the blink of an eye, she’s coy again. Gripping the towel around her waist, she skips past me, entering the main suite, dripping water as she goes.

“I wish I had the foresight to pack,” she says, frowning at her crumpled dress. “Oh well.”

She readjusts her towel to cover her torso and sits on the edge of the bed.

“Enough games,” I snarl. “You like it rough, do you? Maybe you’ll be more willing to talk if I put my hands around your throat a second time—”

“He wants power,” she blurts as I take a step toward her. “He wants to make a splash. Be seen. Be heard. He wants to cause a diversion large enough to move against several big players at once, Mischa Stepanov among them. He won’t blow up the entire city, mind you. It’s strategic—”

“Do you know where?” I don’t know if I believe her in the first place. It sounds insane. Fantastical.

It sounds exactly like the move of someone desperate to shake up Hell’s Gambit and make a name for himself. I’ve worked for Mischa long enough to know the type. Few men can rise to the top of this city’s power structure without a bit of shock and awe.

“I don’t,” she admits. “I know he plans on watching the show, though. From a boat, I think. One of the Saleris’—”

“I know the one,” I say. A forty-footer Gregori loves to parade along the coast. “I could head him off myself. Demand answers.”

If he resorts to utilizing a lone woman to do his dirty work, how formidable can he be?

As if reading my mind, Briar laughs. “You wouldn’t even make it onto the water. Unless it’s as a corpse.”

Her tone lacks the mocking lilt I’m used to. “You really are afraid of him.”

“You would be too if you’ve seen a fraction of what I have.”

“I’ve seen enough in my day to fear no man.”

She scoffs, kicking her legs into the air. “Well, we can’t all be as stone-cold as you. What with the things you’ve done...”

It’s a statement designed to get a rise out of me. To distract.

It works.

“You know what isn’t on that list?” I counter harshly. “Letting my child be taken by someone I deem a madman.”

“Oh, touché.” She giggles. “I guess you never loved that Willow girl, then. Despite you being faithfully by her side all those years?”

My eyes narrow. “If you won’t let me contact Mischa, then tell me. What is your plan?”

She scrambles to the other side of the bed to put her back to me. “My plan was to be on a beach in Tahiti by now.”

“But you’re not. So why stay? Why leave him? Why try to ask a man you hate for help?”

Her response is so soft I have to strain to hear her. “My perfect sister has a wee little accident, and the most powerful man in the city loses his goddamn mind.

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