Daughter from the Dark by Sergey & Marina Dyachenko

Author:Sergey & Marina Dyachenko
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

“Can he actually cause you harm?”

Whiskas had left. Aspirin stayed in the kitchen, twirling an empty glass in his hands and listening to Alyona’s exercises. An outsider would never have believed a girl who picked up a violin only two months ago could manage such complex passages so skillfully.

Eventually Alyona stopped playing. She came into the kitchen, sat down across the table, and took the initiative of speaking to Aspirin—a previously unheard of occurrence.

Recovering from the shock of this new experience, he replied, “A while ago he offered me protection services. Personal safety, things like that. But now he thinks I know something important and am hiding it from him. And people like him don’t like even a hint of disloyalty.”

“Can he cause you harm?” she asked. “Serious harm?”

“I don’t know,” Aspirin said after a pause. “But it’s a possibility. No, not a possibility. Yes, he can hurt me. Why do you care?”

“Are you afraid of him?” she pressed.

“I suppose I am,” Aspirin said unwillingly and thought that some things in his life—some recent things—were much scarier than Victor “Whiskas” Somov.

“Is it because of Mishutka and me?”

Aspirin glanced at her in surprise. Alyona was not kidding.

“What can he do?” she asked again. “Attack you, try to kill you? Mishutka will protect you.”

“Me?” Aspirin snorted.

“You,” Alyona said softly. “You are not a very nice person, obviously. But if we are causing you some distress, we owe you that much . . .”

“You don’t need to worry about me. I am leaving,” Aspirin said wearily, going back to his room. “You can have the apartment. You can do whatever you want.”

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