The Fixer: Bratva's Dark Allegiance (Bratva Dark Allegiance Book 1) by Raven Scott

Author:Raven Scott [Scott, Raven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

18

Ophelia

“Your phone’s off, right?” Sasha asked.

Licking my lips heavily, I nodded as my hand went to my pocket automatically. Malda had assured me she didn’t listen in, but we couldn’t just take her word for it.

Sascha sat back as the train sped out of Saint Petersburg, leaving that horrible city and horrible family far behind. “What did you find out?”

“I’m pretty sure it was an inside job.” My tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth at his highly arched brows— the quick tilt of his head. “I think Vyachaslav either instigated it or let it happen. I don’t know why, but the aftermath makes it the most likely scenario.”

“The fuck kind of man tries to assassinate himself?”

Shrugging lightly, I splayed my fingers in helplessness; I’d asked myself that same question. The facts didn’t lie, though.

Scratching his beard roughly, Sascha sunk into his seat with a frown. “Aleksander’s whole spiel is power to the people, right? In order to bring Russia up, he needs to have that power if he wants to spread it. Russia’s never been in a good way, and it’s particularly bad right now. The Ruble is .016 of the U.S. Dollar…”

“Yeah. The only thing I can think of is that either the attempt on the Patriarch can either really help Aleksander, or it can really help someone or something else. The families are not known for their independent thinking of the greater good. Historically, they’re important because most of our business had shared risk. You out someone and you out yourself as well. Ever since Aleksander took over, he’s pumped attention on himself and the socialist fronts he’s created. He’s going to run for office. That’s the obvious thing.” Sascha’s surprised expression told me my assumption was only obvious to me. A sigh built in my chest.

“Everyone thinks they can do it better than the last time,” Sasha stated. “Aleksander’s entire economic presence is based on equal wealth distribution appropriate to skill. If you read the business model on Makovich’s website, it reads like everyone has a price. Doctors, lawyers, garbage men, call center representatives… they all have an intricately determined price tag.”

“That’s definitely not the first place my mind would go if someone tried to assassinate me. How would killing his dad do him any good?” Russia at the moment was a democracy, but anyone with eyes knew this country was in a bad state.

Sascha’s eyes narrowed, as he seemed to put the pieces together, his head tilting curiously. “You think he’s going to run for Prime Minister? If that’s true, how would anything like an assassination work for him?”

“The only thing separating me and you,” I explained. “Is what we know. If we never met, you’d never know Makovich Industries was just a huge, money laundering front designed to captivate the masses. Everyone knows someone that works at Makovich in some capacity and people who don’t work there want to. And the ones who do work there don’t want to screw it up because it’s the best job they’ll ever get.

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