The Payback by Mila Sin & Manuela Rouget

Author:Mila Sin & Manuela Rouget [Sin, Mila & Rouget, Manuela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Eleanor

If you’ve ever wondered how long it takes for a woman to survive in an apartment with two men she’s fucked while undercover and pretending to be a Bratva bride, the answer is a paltry two months.

I’m going out of my goddamn mind. Nik and Dimitri are still walking on eggshells around each other after my husband revealed his dad’s cause of death. Nik is pissed Dimitri would ever consider him a suspect; Dimitri is pissed that Nik keeps looking at me like he wants to fuck me; I keep looking at both of them like I want to fuck them, but I’m quick to avert my eyes when they turn in my direction.

Clearly, I’ve got my priorities in the right place.

The tension is at an all-time high, made more so because Dimitri doesn’t know what Nik and I got up to in the gym. I feel the weight of the secrets wrapping around my throat like a noose, and it’s becoming too much to bear. I told Dimitri he didn’t make choices for me, and my business is indeed my business, so why is it eating away at me?

Neither dictates a thing in my life despite them hovering in the periphery of my brain like annoying ghosts. The only thing I need them for is evidence, and I’m up to my eyeballs in footage to comb through.

They’ve both been wearing cameras and filming meetings and other dealings the Bratva are involved in, forming a tentative truce to collect evidence.

Due to all the nonsense and a desperate need to see anything other than the four walls of my closet-turned-office, when my phone rang yesterday and Oksana asked me to tea—because, of course, that was her suggestion—I was eager to accept. Especially when she told me Ana and a few other wives would accompany us.

I would have declined if it had been just the two of us. The fear that she knew of Sergei’s proposition was real. I was half afraid she would spike my tea or something before stabbing me with a knife—the proper one, most certainly, because from what I’ve read and noted at our dinner a few weeks ago, she’s indeed a stickler for etiquette.

So here I am again, walking into the Ritz, desperate to get some separation from the apartment and the men I share it with. But alas, it’s never that easy.

Nik walks me to the tearoom with a measured distance between us at all times, greets the women gathered, pulls out my chair for me, and leaves us to it. He sits at a table nearby to watch over me with a few other burly men, who I assume are the other bodyguards.

Doubtful there will be anything to guard against. All I see is some weak tea and gossiping ladies. How riveting for them.

“Elsa, so good to have you join us,” Oksana greets once I’m settled in my tufted seat.

“Thank you for inviting me. I feel like I haven’t been outside in days.”

A couple of the other women at the table titter, and I realise how that sounded.

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