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The man’s dark eyes narrowed and I realised this conversation was going south. "Ты ебанулся?"("Have you lost your fucking mind?")"Я сделал то, что должен был."("I did what I had to. No one’s touching my family. Not Zayne, not Anya.")The man barked out a harsh laugh and I flinched. "I could’ve it handled. Tell me, son, is there something you’re hiding I am not aware of?”English. He used English. And I trembled. Son? Did he just called Judas….My eyes widended. Oh my god! Now I remembered where I saw him. On the magazine. Alexei Volkov. The Russian entrepreneur. Some say he had ties with mafia."Я ничего не скрываю."("I’m not hiding anything.")Alexei’s dark eyes were like twin daggers as he leaned forward. "Тогда объясни, пчто ты поджег склад, чтобы скрыть свои следы."("Then explain why you burned the warehouse.")There was a loud silence until I realised this was messier than anything. I shouldn’t be eavesdropping. There were talking about some risks, something burning and what

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Judas’s POV"Sit," Father commanded, not even bothering to look at me.I didn’t. Instead, I leaned harder against the desk, the corner digging into my back. It didn’t bother me. Hell, I welcomed the discomfort—it was better than dealing with this. Knowing damn well it’d piss him off. That’s what my motive was anyway. He just ruined my morning. "If you have something to say, just say it."He turned then and his dark eyes bore into mine before he sighed and pinched the bridge of his node. "You’ve become careless," he muttered coldly as if I was the biggest headache for him and not his precious daughter. "This is a safe house, not a brothel where you can bring any woman and fuck. She could be a spy for fuck’s sake.”Any woman?My lip unconsciously curled into a sneer. "She’s a nobody," I said flatly. "Just a body I happen to like."Strangely the words left my mouth like venom stinging me in my fucking throat. And they did. Father’s eyes narrowed."Nobody?" he repeated and took a step clo

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Sera’s POVHis mother was nothing like I imagined. Not the rude, foreboding woman my mind had painted despite being Judas Romanovski’s mother. Instead, she was a beam of light in this damn family of brooding men. It almost felt normal. Almost.“Sit, dear,” Rara said softly offering a warm smile. It was hard to believe that someone like her could exist in a family like this. I never judge a book by its cover, but the freaking Romanovski name screamed violence and nothing else.Her warm smile radiated an unwavering kindness, yet her presence carried an elegance I couldn’t grasp. Like the gentle breeze before a hurricane.“No, no, please, Mrs. Romanovski, I can—” I stammered, moving to pour the tea myself.But she placed a firm hand on mine, stopping me. “Nonsense. You’re Judas’s guest. Let me.”Guest… I wanted to scoff and drag her to the bedroom and show her what her dear son had been doing to me. But that would be embarrassing for me and her also. So I refrained.Her insistence was wr

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Some people walked into your life not to stay, but to carve out a part of you that would never belong to anyone else. He was that person-chaos I couldn’t tame, and I was a quiet he couldn’t understand. Together, we were both too much and still not enough.I didn’t know why I was even thinking about this.But I truly wanted to know what were we? Lovers, enemies, acquaintances?There was no word for the space we occupied in each other’s lives. No definition for the push and pull that tied us together like sea held by sand.I wondered if he ever thought about it too, about what we were. Or if I was just another name he’d forgotten before it even left his lips.I named it complicated.But complicated didn’t even begin to scratch the surface.Rara’s hands were gentle as she took the empty cup from my trembling grip. So softly as if she knew I needed the stillness. Her eyes were warm yet piercing, held mine for a moment too long, and I felt exposed in a way I hadn’t prepared for.“You’re ca

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