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“They either accept that you’re married, or I kill them. Either way, you will be safe.”
“You make it sound easy.”
“It’s not complicated,” he says dryly.
I drop down on the chair again and slide my sandwich away. “I need ice cream.”
Sliding my phone over, he nods. “Fill the freezer. It’s going to be a while before things settle down.”
“I need to go to my apartment and go through the rest of my things.”
“I thought the bratoks cleaned the place out.”
“They moved what I asked them to. There are still boxes and clothes to go through.”
“You can have it all moved to one of the empty apartments and sort through it here if you want.”
“Thank you for the offer, but that seems double the work. I will donate a lot of it, so moving it twice doesn’t make sense.”
“Alright.”
“Do you have a small safe that I can use?”
“I have a big one. How much room do you need?”
“Not much.”
He dips his head so he can see my eyes. “What haven’t you told me?”
“The last of the jewelry is hidden beneath a loose floorboard in Mama’s closet.”
“Is it sentimental or valuable?”
“Valuable.” I hold up my hand with the signet ring. “I wear the sentimental stuff. This was Mama’s.”
Lifting the locket around my neck, he rubs his thumb over it. “And this?”
“It was my maternal grandmother’s. She and my grandfather passed away a year after I was born.”
“So you do have a piece of your past.”
“I would like some facts, too, so I can make sense of why a father I never knew left me his fortune.”
“Between Grigory and Gianna, we’ll eventually get enough information to paint a full picture.”
“Who is Grigory?”
“He’s the youngest Volkov. Genius hacker, like Gianna. Went to MIT and is singlehandedly modernizing the syndicate.”
“Is that what Gianna does for the Mafia?”
“Yes and no. I am not privy to all the details, but from what I’ve seen, she makes capital double and triple by just looking at it.”
“Then she can invest our millions if we ever get our hands on it.”
“Have you thought about what you would do with a big pile of money?”
“I would buy Stasia her own bakery and—”
