Maxim: Bratva of NYC by Rebecca Joyce

Author:Rebecca Joyce [Joyce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebecca Joyce
Published: 2023-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Illyria

“I should be back tomorrow afternoon,” Maxim said, as I watched him go through the overnight bag Vladmir had sent over. “And I know you will do what you want, but I would feel more comfortable while I was away if you would stay here with our son and Henry, where all three of you will be safe.”

I smirked at that.

Diplomacy just looked wrong on him. Not that I believed Maxim had a diplomatic bone in his body. The man was good with plain talk and brute force. Hearing him take the middle way just didn’t sit well with me. Not at all.

As hard as that was to hear, I would bet it was harder for him to say. “I could potentially be swayed to do so, provided you do something in return for me.”

“What’s that, Moya Lyubov?”

“Take her side. In a few hours, everything she thought she knew she was going to learn was a lie. She’s going to be upset, unsure, betrayed. She’s going to need someone to advocate for her. Whatever she decides, back her up, Maxim. Be in her corner. You owe her that much.”

Zipping up his bag, he stepped over to me, reaching for my hand. “Is that what you want, Moya Lyubov?”

I shrugged. “It’s a start.”

Bringing my hands to his lips, he turned both palms up and kissed both palms. “Then I will do it. For you,” he whispered, never taking his eyes off me. “I want to kiss you.”

“I know you do,” I muttered, removing my hands from his, taking a step back.

I wanted him to kiss me as well. I’d learned a lot about who I was and my relationship with Maxim over the last few months. Mainly I learned that no matter how angry I was, how hurt I was, how much I wanted to make him pay for what he did, a part of me would always love him. I couldn’t help but feel a constant need for him, like a magnetic force drawing me in. I was his, and he was mine.

Even with everything that had happened to me, that pull never went away. In fact, it increased tenfold. Alone and in pain, I needed him. I craved his strength, his power, his savage nature. I knew he was the only one who could make my nightmare go away.

I needed him to do that for me.

I wasn’t lying to him when I said I would forgive him.

Funny thing was, I think on some level I already did. I knew why he did what he did. I still didn’t like it, but it served two purposes. One, it got me out of the way and two, it gave me the time and anger I needed to do what needed to be done.

I never thought I would be that woman who took a man back after he cheated. I always hated those women. Thought they were weak and stupid, but they weren’t. To take a man back after he did the unthinkable took a lot of strength and power I never knew existed.

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