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“Let’s fucking go, brat.” He reaches into the back of his jeans, pulling his own gun free and pointing it at my chest, clicking the safety off.
We both stand staring at each other, our heavy breathing filling the space between us.
I can barely keep my hands steady. My whole body feels like it’s overflowing with rage, and I don’t know how to get it out.
“Shoot me, I fucking dare you,” Dimitri taunts.
“She could have been taken.” My voice feels foreign.
“She wasn’t?—”
“She could have been!” I click the safety off my gun.
Dimitri doesn’t even flinch.
He raises his eyebrows. “I don’t think that’s what’s got you all worked up. So, why don’t you tell me what’s really bothering you?”
Where do I even start…
“You let Bianca sneak out?—”
“What the fuck happened with Ricci?” Dimitri’s brown eyes narrow as they flick over my blood-stained clothes. “Because I bet that’s what’s really got you all riled up. What did he say?”
“He was a waste of my time, that’s what.”
“He had no useful information? Or did you kill him before he had a chance to talk?”
I have to look away from Dimitri as I try to ignore Ricci’s last words.
How could he accuse Papochka of cheating on Mamochka?
“He talked, all right. Nothing but bullshit, so yeah, I killed to fucker.”
“Think you did more than that. Mikhail sent me a picture of the body. Looks like he had been put through a meat grinder.”
“Since when do you question my methods?”
“Since you don’t seem to be fucking thinking straight. So, I’ll ask you again, brat, what is really bothering you?”
We stare at each other, guns aimed and ready, as I try to work up the courage to speak the words out loud, because once I do they become real.
“Bianca is pregnant.” I lower my gun and I sit, head in my hands.
Dimitri’s mouth drops open as he lowers his own gun. “She’s actually pregnant?”
“Yes, that’s why she snuck out. To go and see an OBGYN.”
“The doctor confirmed it?”
“Yes.”
“And it’s yours?”
“Of course, it’s fucking mine.” Even before the doctor confirmed how far along she is, I knew it was mine.
“This is… Whoa, this is big. I didn’t realize you guys were wanting to actually do the whole ‘relationship thing’. I mean, it was obvious you were fucking but…” Dimitri shuts up when he sees the look on my face.
Exhaustion plagues me, but I don’t have time to give in.
