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- Authors: Mila Kane
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NIKOLAI
The day my father died, I learned two new things.
First, my half-brother, and rival for the title of pakhan in the bratva
I’d dedicated my life to, knew me better than I’d thought.
Second, getting out of the trunk of a car with your hands tied is a bitch, but
it’s not impossible.
My entire life, I’d been competing with my older brother for survival in the
brutal world I’d been born into. A chess game a decade in the making, each
moving our pieces across the board, trying to stay alive. Kill or be killed was
the only certainty in my life for a long time, and that didn’t make for happy
families.
The plan that had finally ended my father was too clever and unexpected for
him to anticipate. For the first time in my life, my brother had moved a chess
piece in a direction I’d never seen coming.
I’d been taken by the De Sanctis family, or rather, handed over. Fucked over,
you mean. I wriggled my hand, testing the bonds, and chuckled. It was
fucking funny. I had to give it to Kirill, he’d blindsided me at the end.
Cornered me into a perfect check, but the game wasn’t over yet, and I was
born to play it. Few people impressed me, and after years, my brother had
topped the list. I’d buy him a drink before I killed him.
But this wasn’t the time for revenge fantasies. It was the time to figure out
how the fuck to escape before Antonio De Sanctis, the don of the outfit, got
me locked up and sitting pretty at his compound or a warehouse somewhere.
Being a prisoner to show the might and power of a fading, irrelevant man
wasn’t how I’d planned to celebrate my father’s death.
They’d secured my wrists with zip ties. Maybe Antonio wasn’t as stupid as
he looked. Zip ties were hard to cut through and not easily picked like metal
cuffs. The De Sanctis fuckers had also tied them incredibly tight. Luckily for
me, they didn’t know my little trick.
They also hadn’t checked me carefully for weapons, and it would prove fatal
to whoever had the bad luck of opening the trunk.
Breathing steadily, I focused on my body, positioning myself as well as
possible, given the limited space. The ache in my right shoulder was a
constant companion and a side effect of my trick. I leaned into the pain now,
pushing my shoulder away from me and twisting. The agony increased, then
a faint pop echoed through my head.
Pain beat at me as I carefully maneuvered my arms under myself inch by
agonizing inch until my hands were in front of me. My dislocated shoulder
howled at me. I stuffed the pain inside the locked box where I put all the
other horrors of my life. Joint laxity wasn’t an unusual condition. However,
the ability to embrace the pain of a full shoulder dislocation was rare. The
problem wasn’t the loose joints, it was my fucked-up brain.
I’d learned young that I could do anything to survive.
Next, I reached for my steel-capped and lethal boots. The idiots hadn’t even
taken them. I’d stomped brains out with these very boots. And that wasn’t
their only benefit. Press the inner arch just right, and a blade shoots out of the
toe.
Cutting the zip tie wasn’t pretty, but it was done by the time the car stopped.
I suspected I’d been brought to New Jersey, the De Sanctis seat of power.
When taken by a rival family, they liked to get you secluded and into an
easily defended place as quickly as possible. To use a truly American phrase,
this wasn’t my first rodeo. However, it was the first time my brother had
willingly handed me over.
As my hands came free, wrists stinging from multiple slices of the careless
knife, my mind lingered over the sight of my father dying.
My mother had been fond of old Russian superstitions. After we were ripped
from Moscow by my father and badly transplanted into America, it was all
she’d had to hold on to of her homeland. That, and me. Not much. Not
enough to stop her from hanging herself from the shower rail in the bathroom
of our secluded house on my fifteenth birthday.
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