The Grayson Duet: A Dark Mafia Romance Collection by Wiltcher Catherine

Author:Wiltcher, Catherine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

JOSEPH

When I walk back into Dante’s office, he’s already on the phone. With three quarts of bourbon in his hand and an expression that’s just as sour, I’m guessing my afternoon won’t be improving anytime soon.

He looks up as I enter and jerks his head at the bar.

“Keep the bullshit pleasantries for your superiors, Peters.” He switches the call to loudspeaker. “Just tell me what you have on Morozov.”

“He’s a real piece of crap,” comes the cool, uptown brogue of Special Agent Roman Peters. “Remind you of anyone?”

I fight a smirk as I reach for the Macallan. I pour out a double, knock it back in one, and then refill it—all in the span of a couple of breaths.

Roman is our FBI connection in New York. We help him bring down the kind of international human trafficking organizations that the US justice can’t touch. In return, he keeps our cartel business from the more law-abiding detectives in his department. There’s enough history between us to fill an eighteen-episode Netflix special, and Dante’s clearly going for the bonus scenes today.

“When I want your fucking opinion, Peters, I’ll ask for it. What else do you have?”

“His links to Sevastien Petrov are as ugly as he is.”

The glass pauses halfway to my mouth, and then I’m slamming it back down on the drink’s tray, making all the glass and silver rattle. Petrov was the same bastard who kidnapped Anna and turned her into his own personal fuck toy. We’ve spent the last year hunting down and eliminating the roots of his former organization. We’d believed that every man was dead.

I turn to find Dante watching me. There’s murder on his face, too. If what Petrov did to Anna was bad, it’s nothing compared to the abuse he inflicted on Eve when she was a child.

“Is Morozov a threat?”

“Yes.”

“To me or to Sanders?”

“To our whole operation.”

Fan-fucking-tastic.

That trip to Texas planted a devil’s seed of unrest in my soul. There was too much past, and now it’s spilling into my present. I’m edgy-as-fuck, drinking too much…I never should have snapped the locks to that dirty box. What the hell was I hoping to find there? Rose-tinted redemption? Blunted memories?

It’s infecting me.

It’s infecting my work.

My only respite is Anna and this gossamer-thin veil of contentment we’ve wrapped around ourselves, but even that’s in danger.

Seeing her with Dante’s kid was like a fortune teller waving the future in front of me.

What’s left of my heart beats for her. It will never beat for another, and never for a fucking child. I made that deal with myself the day I lost my son. Soon after, I made another deal with the man sitting in front of me.

But I saw the look on her face.

I saw the peace.

I saw the problem.

“I’ll tell Rick about Morozov.” Dante’s dark gaze seeks out mine again as I’m flicking the bird at my self-control and lifting my third Macallan.

“Tell him to stop screwing Senator D’Angelo’s daughter as well,” responds Roman tersely. “It’s pissing the senator off.

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