Focus by Annie Jocoby

Author:Annie Jocoby [Jocoby, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Suspense, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Suspense
Amazon: B00SCKOSY4
Publisher: Tobann Publications
Published: 2015-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Nikolai and I went to an all-night diner to try to think about things and talk about what was going on back home. I was happy that he was around, because he could give me some valuable information on how my father was and how the syndicate was doing. I was going to have to broach the subject of CJ to my father, and I hadn’t talked to him in quite awhile.

We sat down and ordered, and then I brought up my father to Nikolai. “So,” I said. “How is my father doing these days?”

He shrugged. “He’s the same. It’s been a very profitable year.” He took a sip of his coffee and his eyes didn’t meet mine.

I fidgeted. I needed to talk around the issues, because I didn’t want to talk about the specifics of my dad’s operation. I didn’t want to talk about how my father’s main income generation came from human trafficking and illegal drugs. Especially after what CJ went through. I didn’t support that aspect of the business then, and I certainly didn’t support it now. “Nikolai, I think that I’m serious about CJ.” Then I shook my head. “No, shake that. I know that I’m serious about CJ. I would like to marry her.”

Nikolai raised his eyebrows. “Well, that will be complicated, to say the least. Your father is going to have to give his blessing, otherwise he won’t protect her. And you know how he feels about you marrying somebody who is Russian Orthodox.”

I knew that. That was going to be the obstacle that would possibly come between CJ and me. With my father’s protection, CJ would be safe. Without it, she would be vulnerable. I couldn’t put her in that position. So, as silly as it was that my father wanted me to marry a woman who was a part of a faith that I had long since renounced, I knew that it was important to him. I was going to have to figure out a way around that, I knew.

“How is Natalia?” I asked him. I never wanted to talk about Natalia. I hated what she was doing for my father’s business. She had a role in the trafficking part of the business, for she was the one who found most of the girls for my father. She had the kind of personality that made the girls trust her right away, so, by the time they found out that they had been targeted for abduction, they never associated Natalia with the targeting. But she was the one who found them, nine times out of ten.

Yet she was my twin sister. It was always difficult for me to completely walk away from her. There was a part of me that still loved her very much. She was there for me when my mother died. And when Anton was killed. And there was also a part of me that didn’t necessarily blame her for doing what she was doing. My father didn’t give her the same chance to leave the country as he gave to me.

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