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Chapter 23
ANDREY
“Again, he was eleven, barely a man,” I point out.
“You know, by the time you’re five in the Bratva, you’ve already started learning discipline, physical training, and loyalty,” Sasha reminds me. “Lev was man enough to rape a girl of eleven.”
“Why didn’t Sergei or my father kill Konstantin?”
“Seriously?” Sasha looks at me in disbelief. “Konstantin is not only Roman Zhukov’s heir, he’s a true Bratva prince with a pure bloodline.”
“Sasha!” Konstantin’s eyes flash with warning, and he shakes his head.
“If my father or your father killed Konstantin, they’d not only be crushed by Roman and the Andreevs but also the Morettis and another prominent Bratva family,” Urie tells me. “My father said that Ivan was just waiting patiently for the day that Andrey and Isabella produced an heir, and then he’d get his kingdom.”
“They also needed to find out where my mother sent that recording and her formulas,” Konstantin tells me. “Your father, Marco, and even Lev have searched for the messenger for eighteen years.”
“Because it incriminated my brother?”
“He said it showed him trashing Karina’s lab and searching for the formula, but it also had him speaking to his father and testing the drug as a truth serum,” Urie tells us. “He nearly killed Ivan that night. He’d pumped so much of that shit into him.”
“So my father was the secret patient?”
“It appears that way,” Konstantin tells me. “He’d been shot.”
“What did he confess to?”
“We don’t know. But we think it was something to do with his involvement in the murder of Matteo, Grigory, and Anatoli,” Konstantin informs me. “When Marco told Lev that your father would be ashamed of him if he could see what he’s doing to us, Lev replied, where do you think I got my idea about the containers from?”
“What was the point of the containers?”
“The containers caused destabilization in the ranks of the crime families that had been hit. While they were arguing in the ranks and scrambling to get the organization back on track, Lev had already swooped in and taken over their trade,” Urie replies. “Lev got the hacker’s parents indebted to him so the kids could get into the back door of the system using his old system code and exploiting that one weakness. While the hackers were routing and sending out containers, they were trying to find your mother’s master file to give him complete access to the Velvet company.”
“We have an idea, now that you and Isabella are married with an heir on the way, Roman has finally agreed to sell back the majority of Velvet Transport to Grace.”
“Fuck!” My eyes widen. “My mother told me they’d sold off that part of Velvet Transport.”
“I think it would be more accurate to say that Roman and Karla took that portion of the company from her,“ Urie tells me.
I give myself a mental shake at that alarming information. So Roman and Karla were holding my mother’s company hostage as well.
“So Lev gave the hackers access through his old systems account. Because we thought he was dead, it would appear that someone inside the company had accessed it. Like Marco or my father,” I guess. “What was the point of Lev going to Russia?”
“To find dirt that he would be able to use against Roman and the Andreevs to hand the organizations over to the law,” Konstantin tells me. “He was also trying to find two ancient plants that are the secret ingredient of the NeuroFamily my mother created.”
“Konstantin and you were set up that night Lev and Stacy were attacked,” Sasha tells me. “Not by Marco or Ivan but…”
“By Lev himself,” Urie says before Sasha can finish. His words floor me. “Lev stole your mother’s phone and contacted Konstantin pretending to be her and worried because she overheard Ivan setting something up to ensure Stacy never had the baby she was carrying.”
“I had told Lev that I was also getting engaged because Valentina was pregnant,” Konstantin adds. “Turns out that Lev had the sniper on the roof specifically for Valentina, to make it seem like Ivan and Marco were trying to finish what they started when I was eleven.”
“Only, I interrupted his plans. I overheard Lev say he was going to talk to you, Andrey, to tell you the good news about him and Stacy. I was going to ambush him when he came out and kill him for what he’d done to my sister.” Urie’s eyes flash angrily. “But before I could attack him, all these other men came out of nowhere and started to attack.”
My eyes narrow on Urie. I’m not quite sure how to feel about this right now. Urie has just admitted to trying to kill my brother—he’s a Pakhan’s brother. I can’t let Urie’s act against my family go unpunished. But my brother had hurt his sister. The iceman steps between Urie and me.
“Your brother shot the love of my life and raped the first love of my life,” Konstantin tells me. “I know, as Pakhan, you need to dish out punishment for crimes against your family, especially when it’s one of your soldiers.” His eyes hold mine. “But I will take Urie, Olga, and Hannah back to Russia with me, and they will be under my protection. Your brother killed your father and bragged to us about it. Rubbing it into my father’s face how he’d never know who’d killed his wife and blaming his son for something I didn’t do.”
“Konstantin is right!” Sasha agrees with him. “Your brother’s crimes are far greater than Urie’s.”
