The Prey by Tim Heath

Author:Tim Heath [Heath, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-21T23:00:00+00:00

In Moscow, Sergej Volkov, with his wife Svetlana, was just leaving the residence of the President, having spent three hours with him and some key government officials. For his glamorous wife Svetlana, who’d made the transition well from pin-up actress to political circles quickly enough, it was just another role she got to play.

The couple didn’t have any children and hadn’t been married for that long, anyway. Besides, she was still making movies, and becoming a mother did not quite fit in with her current commitments.

She’d spent time amongst many of the other wives — many of whom were former actresses, models, the usual assortment who then married into vast wealth and power.

She was also happy within a male environment, not hiding away when the President walked over to her husband, staying by his side, even striking up her own conversation with her country’s leader. Sergej had especially liked that side of her, and his influence amongst those he rubbed shoulders with was noticeably increasing as a result.

In his early years, he’d had a rough reputation, his nickname the Wolf going back to his first two decades in business when he took hold of the companies he’d been handed responsibility for and turned them into overnight successes in just a few short years. Back then, he took no prisoners, and so the legend around him grew.

In recent years — certainly publicly and especially since his marriage to arguably Russia’s most iconic current actress — he’d shown far less of that side of things, a side that had so shaped his formative years and forged his reputation.

Now, they were seen as the model Russian couple, two people bringing so much to the nation, working together, often seen publicly, the wife beside her husband. It was a definite message the Russians wanted broadcasting across their country. Two people working hard for one another, standing alongside each other, equally supporting the other in the talents they possessed.

The President, too, was most impressed, knowing Sergej personally from their time together at university, and then a few years after that when they served on the same team within the former KGB. He’d only met Svetlana recently, in the years since her marriage to Sergej, though he knew of her as any President would since she was a leading performer with a worldwide audience. Like many sports people, as well as the successful business leaders, anyone bringing attention to the nation naturally came onto the radar of the President’s office. He was delighted to see this particular match when it had become known, the wedding big news in certain circles — those in the know understanding it only cemented Sergej’s position within the hierarchy.

As much as Sergej’s earlier years had been marked with threats and insults, Svetlana represented the complete opposite, the picture of peace — of tranquility — most often seen in public in white fur, the very image of tranquil beauty.

They got into the back seat of their car, the driver closing the door behind them before taking the wheel, the glass partition between them closed, privacy secured.

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