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“Hello.” Tom draws out the word. “It’s your first day off in weeks. Why are you bothering me on your day off?”
I wipe my sweaty palm on the front of my jeans. Tiny bumps rise on my arms as a draft blows through the house. The phone nearly drops as something startles me.
“Didn’t you get the message to meet up?” I spin around, squinting through the harsh shadows in the room.
Nobody is here. This is just my mind playing tricks on me.
“Message?” Tom hums and something closes in the background. “I just looked through my phone again and nope, there’s nothing.”
“Odd.” I lean against the counter, one leg bouncing. “I got a message that said there was a team meeting. I thought that would have meant all of us.”
Tom laughs and someone says something to him in the background. “Piss anyone off lately? They might be playing a prank on you.”
“Maybe.”
A shiver crawls up my spine as I start to think about the message. While it wasn’t strange to get a text from an unknown number, Tom is usually the one who reaches out to me with a new job.
“I have to go, Tom.”
I end the call and slide the phone into my pocket just as something heavy collides with the back of my head.
With a groan, I fall to the ground. My head bounces off the cracked tile and a metallic taste fills my mouth. I try to prop myself up, but stars are dancing across my vision.
A black haze takes over the corners of my eyes. Footsteps echo across the room as the world fades away.
Chapter 4 - Nik
Lights glow through the frosted windows of my factory as the sun dips below the horizon. I sit in my car, enjoying the view as my men open the back of a dark van and pull out the slumped body of a young girl.
Her head lolls to one side, and her long brunette hair falls in front of her beautiful face. Her full lips part in a soft, sultry pout and her slim, athletic body hangs lifelessly between two of my men.
Fuck, no wonder Yuri fell into her trap. She is gorgeous.
Everything about her is alluring. From her narrow waist to the curve of her ass and toned legs in her tight jeans. She may look like an angel, but she draws men in like a siren.
It is a shame that she’s going to have to pay for what she did to Yuri.
One of the large bay doors rolls up just enough for the men to walk under. The ground is illuminated with hazy yellow light as they drag her inside.
My men are under orders not to lay a finger on her until I get in there. If there is anyone who is going to get revenge, it’s going to be me.
She sent Yuri to prison and she’s plotting to take down the Bratva. She has another thing coming if she thinks that she is going to escape this situation unscathed.
The end of my cigarette burns bright against the darkening day. I take another drag, exhaling a thin line of smoke out the open car window.
I flick my cigarette out of the car as the van drives away. One of the men on guard stands beside the bay doors. His hands are tucked in his pockets as he watches the road that leads up to the factory. He nods to me when his gaze lands on my car.
Showtime.
The breeze is warm, carrying the scent of oil and smoke from the nearby factories. Though my factory produces car parts by day, it also acts as a front for less savory businesses at night.
One of those businesses is the punishment of people who dare to cross me.
“Evening boss.” The guard nods to me and opens the door beside the bays. “They said that she was still unconscious but starting to move around. She may wake soon.”
“If anyone shows up looking for her, kill them on sight.”
The grin that spreads from one side of my face to the other is anything but happy. As I stride into the building, the door slams shut behind me.
