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“Yeah, no worries. I’m sorry, Tiff. I meant nothing by it, I swear.”

We could hear muffled screaming in the background.

“Issak?” Tiffany purred, warm again. “Are you playing doctor?”

He chuckled. “My patient isn’t being cooperative this time.”

Tiffany threw back her head and laughed. It took her a minute to get herself under control. Issak cleared his throat, and we could hear papers rustling in the background.

“Here it is. She’s negative on her STD panel, and positive for pregnancy. Her HCG levels are high, so I’m going to estimate that she’s been pregnant for a while, but I won’t know for sure until I do an ultrasound.”

“Excellent. I’ll let the Pakhan know,” Tiffany chirped, before hanging up the phone without a goodbye.

I looked at her and Valentina, gulping down the nausea that I was feeling.

“Surprise?” Valentina said.

Oh, fuck. I wasn’t sure if this was a good thing or a bad thing. All I knew was that I was going to have to tell Benedikt. I wasn’t sure he would react well, but surely he would, since all he seemed to talk about was putting a baby in me.

Right?

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

“Why haven’t I seen Makari around?” I looked around the table at the men in power.

My wayward family bookkeeper had been more reclusive since Kaida gained the upper hand on him. I still couldn’t believe she took the guy’s tongue. A grown-ass man almost the same age as me.

“He was bested by a bitch, I wouldn’t show my face either,” Viktor mumbled.

“Like when Tiffany took him for a ride all those years ago,” the phone spoke. Alexie was sitting in on the meeting virtually, as Roman was here somewhere with his new wife, but too obsessed with her to answer his phone.

“Are we going to allow that school to reopen?” Issak muttered.

“It would be good to work on alliances with the next generation,” Viktor mused. “We can’t possibly keep housing all these girls.”

The Pakhan was right. The rescuees from The Academy overran the mansion. Since I found a connectionwith Isadora, it’d given some men ideas. Some thought that the girls were there for them.

We’d executed several over the past few weeks, for trying to take something that wasn’t theirs.

“Makari has been holed up with that Asian cunt. Guess her pussy keeps him busy.” A representative of the Bratva’s assassins tried to mutter, but Viktor glared at him.

“So we need the school. If we are in charge of it, we can still hold the leverage,” our Pakhan addressed us all.

“But will the other families go for it?” I couldn’t help but ask.

“We start small and build up. Let’s get it built and we can ask forgiveness later,” my Pakhan said.

I thought it was a terrible idea, I doubted the families would trust us with their futures. Getting the girls out of here made the family property less of a target though.

We could also help the ones who still needed medical care with full staff, rather than running Issak ragged. He had other responsibilities in the Brotherhood. My spies also told me he was getting a little too close to one of the girls.

All I knew was that she had medical problems, and he’d been seen coming out of her room more often. Some men rumbled he was doing more than just examining her.

I hoped for his sake it wasn’t true. Not again. Viktor wouldn’t hesitate to kill him this time. I left the meeting as soon as I could and headed out. I wanted to see if Makari was at his second home, before I found mymalen'kiy angel,and spent some quality time with her.

She said she had something to tell me, and I already knew what it was. But I was going to wear a poker face, and I already had my tears ready to go, so she thought I was surprised. I wanted her announcement to be perfect.

Just as soon as I found the asshole skipping out on meetings.