Star Powered Hearts by Misty Musette

Author:Misty Musette [Musette, Misty]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2022-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

Part 3: EVER AFTER

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CHAPTER 18

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Three years ago.

Having never flown, Yona was absolutely terrified of getting in an airplane.

Getting in an airplane and leaving her country.

Getting in an airplane and never coming back.

She’d always dreamed of leaving Russia. However, the reality of packing up all her worldly possessions and fleeing to California to elope with a wealthy American patron over twenty years older than her was… intimidating. It was one thing to playact The Girlfriend Experience on the internet, quite another to adopt the role in real life - and the boys she’d caught on the web never felt wholly real to her. Even Damien.

None of them ever felt as real as Grischa, who snored into her neck every night, and had long-appointed her the sole keeper and guardian of his personal happiness - which meant, if he was unhappy, she had failed him in some amorphous way.

Loving him was a responsibility, like all her other responsibilities living with him: paying the bills, smoothing things over with the creditors and the bratva, keeping him from getting his kneecaps broken. She shook her ass for horned-up lonely-hearts and swiveled on twisted gangsters’ laps. After so many years of wandering, wasting most of her twenties crashing on couches and sleeping in cars, she was desperate for home, for someone who would share the burden of survival. She was tired of fending for herself - and yet, with Grischa, Yona still found herself alone.

Until she wasn’t anymore.

“You never get this pretty for me,” Grischa once griped, pouting over a bowl of instant noodles while Yona curled her hair on the floor of their apartment, “You don’t bother with the other perverts like you do for Him.”

‘Him’ being her one reliable regular. Her generous benefactor. Her demented diary. By far, her relationship with KT29 was the most involved and most lucrative of all her digital dates. On the really tough days, she actually wanted to ring him for some much-needed catharsis - strange as it was.

“The other perverts do not pay for the food in our bellies, the roof over our heads,” she replied simply, touching up her lipstick, “Neither do you.”

In response, he called her every nasty name he could before slurping down his noodles and slamming the door so hard the plaster rained onto her head.

When Grischa finally landed himself in the slammer, Damien leapt at the chance to fill his void in her life.

“You are sure about this?” she asked the mustachioed man on her laptop screen. She was skeptical, of course, about grand gestures and declarations of love from a man who had yet to experience her in the flesh.

“I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life,” he replied, while gorgeous California palms waved at her in the background, “I’m crazy as a fox about you.”

“And how long until you regain sanity? My fortieth birthday? My fiftieth?”

“I know you people tend to be grim,” he replied, grinning when she rolled her eyes, “But have a little faith in me, darlin.

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