Betting On Her by Kelly Collins

Author:Kelly Collins [Collins, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Sergei said nothing to me on the ride to the cemetery. He and Timur looked at each other intently, as if they were privy to some kind of secret code.

“We will watch your father sprinkle dirt on his son, and then we go home. You’re a mess, and you smell like Matt Wilde.” He raised his nose in the air and breathed deeply. “I hope he wore a condom. I don’t want to raise his son.”

“Please give me some credit, which is more than I can give you or my father.” I pulled the skirt of my dress up my thigh to show the angry gash. “You both left me standing there in the hail of gunfire. It was Matt who protected me.” I turned and looked out the window. We had entered the cemetery and were winding around to the Petrenko plot of land. No one was buried there, not even my mother, but there was a large granite stone that had our name on it. Mikhail would be the first to rest beneath it. “How funny that I have to look to our enemy for protection because my family can’t manage to care.”

We stayed at the cemetery until the casket was lowered and buried, and we headed home. I played with the idea of pitting my father against Sergei. If they were fighting each other, they wouldn’t be paying much attention to me.

I turned and faced him. “I want to tell you something, but I feel I’m being disloyal to my father if I do.”

He turned and gave me his full attention. “Your loyalty lies with your husband.”

“But we aren’t married yet.”

“It’s a certainty, Katya. We don’t need love to have an understanding. And I don’t need to put a ring on your finger to demand your loyalty.”

Wrong. I screamed inside, but I held on to my calm facade because this was a game where I didn’t want to find myself on the losing team. “I’ve been snooping.”

His brows lifted. “My intended is a spy? Should I be worried?”

“Not as long as I’m spying for you.” I pushed my back against the door and continued. “It’s important for you to know about the health of the business.” I watched him for some reaction, but of course, there was none. “Let’s be honest, you didn’t come here to be my father’s second in command; you came here to rule. Don’t you want to know the value of your kingdom?”

One thing I knew for certain was, Sergei was a big man with a big ego, and the more I fed it, the better. “I’m not a great hacker, but I can get into my father’s accounts because he’s lazy and cheap when it comes to protection.”

“Get to the point. What do I need to know?”

“A large amount of money changed hands recently. I think it had something to do with the attack today. I’m not sure who the target was, but I’d guess it was you or me.”

His eyes grew big.

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