e messages from my brothers. Juri already landed and apparently, they had already talked about the Italians. I didn't know if Rosaria had pr

ght whiskey and barely sat down when my door slammed open. Kam

mation about where you had been or when you would be back. We'v

as she seethed. "I'm su

xt year you're going to be 40 and you think it's okay just to go f

ve last night. They were weak. I accidentally killed two but Juli

grabbed my hands. They were bleeding, bruised and I was pretty sure a couple knuckles were broken but it felt good to get everything out. Disappearing for

war. We send her out and get caught, we start a war. If she happ

't want it to be at the hands of the Italians. I don't really thin

. A couple of bandaids later, she switched

I looked at my si

I'm surprised she lived this long. Not just with this incident but any of them. So

seems almost

e. Saving as many as possible and trying to keep the collateral damage down. Innocents shouldn't be hurt

onto the desk. Looking up at me, her eyes were filled with water. I couldn't re

hing we can do?" She

th my brothers a

ge of our father but cut from the same cloth. Stern but fair. Demanding of respect and the strength to back it up.

d but you could tell the influence of their parents in the way they spoke. Lev was the hacker. He didn't care much for the world outside of the computer. Lev also ran the security side

it hardened me over the years but I still had a heart. Not something my brothers could say easily. There was still a

them under the fold of the Baranov Bratva. It turned out that she loved Vladimir. Our father couldn't have let her marry the man if she didn't, e

rek

hand. "We will see. Juri won't put

ay from my desk. "Get so

own on the couch that was against the wall of my office. Closing my eyes for a m

ar

away the haze from sleep, I glanced at my watch. It was after six. C

hell did y

ince I felt this old. My body ached, my

e? What the hell? Lev sa

ll my joints and bones seemed to crack at the same time. Juri even was

y neck twice. "And there were enough people grouped up to make it feel satisfying. Though.

ue. "Jesus, Marek, wh

t messages, eight phone calls, and a ton of notifications from the news channel I foll

the pla

I used his title. "We need to

eye as she told him her worth was nothing. I had my own scars, but they weren't nearly as bad. Yes, they were from my father, but I'd taken them b

and Kazmer in here or sha

want this

ng my office door, I headed up the stair to the large office that was for the Vor. Lev was already in there, his head buried deep in a laptop and I'm sure it felt good since he had been elbows deep in baby shit for two weeks. His l'ubí

the far corner. Leaning back, I rested my he