Undying Love: A Mackenzie Series Box Set (Mackenzies) by Elizabeth Knox

Author:Elizabeth Knox [Knox, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knox Publishing
Published: 2021-10-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not

~ Dare to Cultivate

Aleksandr

January 28th

“Read the date back to me again,” I tell my brother, who has a file filled with information on the Mackenzie family.

“June twenty-seventh,” Aleksei grits from the other side of the room.

I peer up from my laptop and glare. I know this isn’t what he wants to be doing, but I’ve been given no choice. I either do what my father has asked of me, or I let Maxim take over the Bratva. There will never be a day that I willingly let him take what has always been mine. I plan on changing things. My father and grandfather maintained their rule over people by instilling fear in their subjects, whereas I want respect. Your people should respect you and fear you at the same time, not one or the other.

“I know you don’t like the grunt work, but I need to find them. These girls are the key to getting the Bratva. Surely you understand that.” Aleksei will never be able to understand what it means to be someone with the weight of their name crushing them. But I do. I know being a Volkolv is both a blessing and a curse. I have the power to start wars whenever I’d like, but with everything in life there is a catch twenty-two. I might be powerful, rich, and ruggedly handsome, but does any of it matter when the one person who should care about me more than anyone else doesn’t give two shits if I die?

Aleksei shuts the file folder in front of him and crosses his arms. “You could’ve had anyone looking for them, but instead you have us doing it. I don’t understand this, brother. We’ve never done work like this before, and if you ask me, I think we’re doing a shit job.”

“Well I wasn’t asking you,” I quip. Normally it doesn’t bother me when Aleksei voices his opinion, but the weight of this task is crushing me, barely giving me any time to breathe.

We keep hitting dead end after dead end. We were finally able to discover the girls were born in Ireland and have the date, but after their births there isn’t any other legal documentation in either Ireland or the United States. Which can’t be correct. They didn’t just get over here without a visa. There would’ve been some sort of documentation, but alas, we’ve been on the hunt for almost a month and nothing has turned up.

I lean back in my office chair and stare up at the ceiling. Why am I even doing this shit? He probably knew I wouldn’t be able to find them and wanted me to fail so he could hand the Bratva over to my younger brother. My father is a fucking pig like that.

“Jesus, someone’s a bit pissy.” Aleksei mutters, rising from where he sits. He goes over to the floor to ceiling windows that overlook downtown San Francisco.

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