Page 16 of The Broken Promises
"It is her, Boss," Declan starts. I look at him, and he gives me a picture,
My hands tremble when I see Lily Nicombe with Sasha Belov together in one frame. Declan doesn’t know the whole story because Lily ran away, but he confirms that Sicily Kotova and Sasha Belov are the same woman.
“Did Dmitri know?” It wasn’t a question for Declan but my curiosity.
Dmitri threatened Sicily about something when he forced her to do what he wanted. Is this it? Sicily did everything because she needed to hide from me. But that’s not logical. She met me and knew that I was close to Dmitri. If she were Sasha, she would have run away.
“I also found this,” Declan places some notes on my table.
The first pages show the plan on how to make Anya pay. I crumple the pages as I look at Sasha's face in the picture. She has planned everything – from changing her image to finding Dmitri. Sasha has always been around, planning when to attack me and the men she thinks raped her.
But how can she do that to Anya? Sasha knew what Anya went through after her father abducted the latter. I didn't think she'd be too cruel to have Anya suffer it again. And she managed to make Anya look crazy to everyone, too. I tighten my hands into fists. What can I say? She has Xerxes's blood in her and hatred in her heart. She is capable of doing everything.
Even using Dmitri to kill me.
The notes don't reveal Lily and Sasha's plan about Dmitri, but if I snatched Sasha from him because of my obsession, he would have a reason to kill me. If that is her plan, she almost succeeded.
Shit.I look at Declan and ask, “Did you read this?” He shakes his head. “Did you show this to anyone other than me?” He shakes his head again.
The government's information about the connections between my business and the Bratva came from Sasha and Lily.Sasha!This is suicide. If the Bratva knows about this, even Dmitri will kill her. Sasha is not only out to get me but the whole wing of Vitaly. How can she do this by herself? Vitaly and Dominic Fador have taken every penny that belonged to them. She would not have any means to get this.
Lily Nicombe is nothing but a drug dealer's slave. She could never have access to these documents. I riled up every man from Xerxes's brigade; they pledged their loyalty to me.Who is helping her?
Xerxes is the only enemy I have. The Fadors will not do this since it will pull them down, too. It’s impossible Vitaly will implicate his own wing.
“We have identified the men who raped Anya at the center, Boss,” Declan tells me. “What do you want me to do with them?”
"Do I have to say it?" I answer. "And Declan, about Lily. If you want to spare…."
“Please. She’s only for sex.”
Lily has become Sasha's friend and accomplice. Losing her will be a big blow to Sasha. But the fewer people who know what Sasha did, the safer she can be. I turn on the fireplace and burn the notes. No one should know about this. I already lost Sasha once. I will not lose her again.
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Epilogue
Sasha
“I’m getting a sandwich. Do you want one?” I ask Dmitri while taking his arm from around my waist.
He opens his eyes a little and shakes his head. I rise from the bed and gently brush his hair and lean to kiss his forehead. He blocks my kiss by catching it with his lips instead. He sucks my lips and rolls me to my back.
“I’m hungry, Dmitri,” I say between kisses.
We have put our last week's argument to the past and filled the whole week with love. I thought of confessing my plan against Gabriel. I buried it instead. I'm giving up that plan. I'm breaking my promise to avenge my father's death because of Dmitri.
But Papa will understand it. He wants me to be safe; Dmitri promised me that. He wants me to be happy; Dmitri has become my happiness. We broke some promises, but we made better ones. The heavens have granted me another chance to be the woman I dreamt of becoming.
If I'm not yet pregnant from all the sex Dmitri and I had the past months, I think we will have our little Sasha this week. He's so excited to have her that it's rubbing on me. I don't care if it's a little Sasha or a tiny Dmitri, as long as I will have this life with him.
Stop,I tell myself when Gabriel is about to enter my mind again. I can't stop thinking I had thought of this life with him before. I'm past the stage where I wonder how our life would have been. But I know my life is better with Dmitri since he is a better man.
"I'll have one turkey sandwich," Dmitri says before pulling the blanket and revealing my breasts. I giggle when he licks my nipples and bites my tits with his lips. "Are you hungry hungry? Or slightly hungry?”
I squeeze his face with my palm and answer, “Hungry hungry.”
He frowns and rolls away from me. I slide from the bed, put on my robe, and head to the door before he can pull me back. When I'm about to leave, my phone rings.