Broken Promises (SOKOLOV BRATVA #1) by Flora Ferrari EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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DIMITRI
As I knock on my father’s office door, I remind myself that keeping the
business running is the most important thing. Countless souls rely on
us. I can’t think about the fact that, under different circumstances, I
might kill my father.
He croaks, “Come in,” and then starts coughing violently.
His office is shrouded in smoke, with faint Las Vegas sunlight shining
through the thick shield-like curtains. He smokes his pipe, staring at a
projection on the wall. It’s the value of Sokolov Securities, the business we
use as a front for our not-so-legal activities. My father doesn’t look at me.
He takes another suck of his pipe while staring at the wall. It’s like he’s
trying to convince himself everything he has done was worth it.
“You wanted to see me,” I say tightly.
Over the years, my father and I have developed a working relationship but
not much else. My father is the Pakhan, the boss, which means he controls
more than just Sokolov Securities. Until recently, he’s kept me away from
the other businesses—the credit card fraud, the hacking, money laundering
—but lately, seemingly out of nowhere, he’s started involving me.
My father doesn’t respond as I take a seat. He just keeps smoking.
I remember when he asked me to become the official CEO of Sokolov
Securities. He had a sick grin on his face, as though I was four and not
forty, and I should forget all the times I watched him do bad things. It was
like he wanted me to drop to his feet with gratitude.
“I’m dying,” my father says after a long pause.
I make a sound, something like a grunt. It’s probably not the reaction he
was looking for, but it’s the most I can drag up from deep inside of me. I’m
not sure what he wants me to say. I’m not sure what he thinks he has any
right to expect.
“Cancer?” I ask.
He looks at me sourly, his eyes shrouded in smoke. His hair has thinned and
grayed over the years. His skin is sagging, and his hard living makes his
body swollen, so he now walks with a cane. Yet he’s still a large, broad, tall
man, like all the Sokolovs.
“How did you guess?” he asks dryly, then coughs as if to prove the point.
I’m sorry, I almost say, but that’s what he wants. My father thinks now that
he’s ill, suddenly everyone should treat him like some new, better man.
That’s not how the world works. He has only gotten away with all his sins
because of his name and power. Power is all he ever wanted, after all.
When I don’t reply, he says, “I’ve been forced to think about the future of
my empire. I’ve been forced to face certain realities. You, Dimitri, will now
become the leader of the Sokolovs and all our businesses. It’s also time you
found a wife.”
He says this matter-of-factly. I stay silent, though I’d prefer to snap at him.
He drove my mother away and made her life hell. The only reason he even
let her go,
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