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“What did they say?”
I tell James, and he shakes his head. “What a fucker,” he spits. “It’s no wonder my cousin was so desperate to get away from this.” He looks at me. “You know that Isabella doesn’t know that Marco is the head of the Boston Mafia family.”
“I realized that.” Inclining my head, I ask again, “What missing documents are they talking about?”
“Marco and Ivan have been keeping me, Hannah, and even Sergei out of the loop more and more lately,” James confesses. “They locked us out of some of the business systems over the past seven weeks.”
“Jesus!” My eyes turn toward the office and ask for the third time. “What are they talking about, missing documents?”
A noise inside the office gets our attention and I glance at James. “We’ll talk later.”
James walks into the office, and I follow. What the fuck is going on here? Whatever it is, my father and Marco are worried shitless. What was it that my father always said? The only thing that scares a monster is a bigger, worse one. Well, Zhukov is definitely that. Fuck!
Anger seethes within me. We’re not prepared for a war with Zhukov especially with all the shit that’s going with these fucking painted ladies. My gaze shifts to James—maybe together with the Moretti mob we’d be able to taken on the Zhukov.
The problem is that now Marco Moretti and Ivan Belov have been marked, and because of them, both the Belov Bratva and Moretti Mafia are vulnerable—unless...
Time to bring about a change of management! While it might bring about a bit of uncertainty with the men, they will feel a lot more secure without marked leaders. My focus is on Marco as I take a seat in front of his desk between my father and James.
“Why did Konstantin come for Isabella?” My eyes move from Marco to my father. “And how can you be so certain he wouldn’t hurt her? What does Roman Zhukov’s son want with my wife?”
“He’s not Roman’s son,” my father answers. “Roman never married.”
Marco and Ivan exchange a glance, making me raise an eyebrow.
“What is he to Roman or you?” I look at both men.
“I know that Konstantin won’t hurt Isabella because he made her a promise when she was three that he’d be back for her and save her before he and his mother were about to leave for Russia,” Marco tells me.
“Save her from what?”
“You!” My father tells me. “Konstantin didn’t agree with Marco about betrothing Isabella to you when he overheard us talking about it.”
“What the fuck business was it of his?” I snarl. “Is that why he stole my wife because of a childhood crush on her on a fucking three year old? Fuck he must’ve been what… nine or eleven at the time. That’s kind of sick!”
“Don’t speak about Konstantin like that!“ Marco’s eyes blaze, and his voice booms. “He may hate me and probably thinks he has good reason to.” His eyes narrow and a smug smile lifts his mouth. “And don’t sit there on your high horse. If I were you, I’d be praying my daughter doesn’t hate you as much as she obviously hates me and Ivan.”
Okay, that’s interesting. Marco defended the man that had marked him and was going to kill him. “I’m not afraid of him. But I am afraid for Isabella, especially if he finds out she’s pregnant with my child. I have a feeling he doesn’t want another Belov in the world, especially not a Belov-Moretti child.”
“I think you’ll find that’s just the child we all need,” my father said under his breath.
Before I can comment on that, Marco quickly moves the subject back to Konstantin.
“I can assure you without a shadow of a doubt that Konstantin will not hurt Isabella,” Marco tells me again.
“So you said.” I sit back and watch the two men closely. “But I am curious to know why you’re so confident about that and why you have such a love-hate relationship with him.” My eyes narrow dangerously. “I’m not going to ask you again. What is Konstantin to you both?”
“He’s my godson,” my father surprises me by saying.
“You could’ve led with that!”
“Or told you who Konstantin really is,” James adds and looks at Marco. “Tell him or I will.”
“Konstantin would never hurt Isabella.” Marco blows out a breath. “Because his real name is Konstantin Moretti. He’s my son. Isabella’s older brother. He’s here to take Isabella to her uncle so she’ll fall under his protection.”
Now it’s my turn to gasp, but it comes out as a choke. Marco’s fucking son killed my brother, marked my father, and stole my wife—this just gets more and more messed up because Isabella is going to hate me even more when I kill her brother!
Chapter 16
