“Alexey?”a gruff voice asked.
“Look, I don’t want to ask a lot of questions and I’m certainly not about to answer any.I’ve got your boy, Alexey, here.He’s in bad shape.If I give you the address, will you come and collect him?”
There was silence and she saw that Alexey, whose name she didn’t really want to know, was starting to stir.This was not good.She was not looking for trouble.She was not interested in knowing this man or anything associated with him.
“I don’t have a lot of fucking time.He was attacked, I helped him, but now I need you to come and get him because there is only so much I can do, and you’re starting to piss me off,” she said.She told him the address and hung up.She put the man’s cell phone back in his pocket and got to work cleaning him up.
She dressed his wounds as best she could, but he was going to need stitches, and she told him she didn’t have them.She was in the process of cleaning the mess away when there was a knock on her door.Alexey tensed up and she told herself to stop thinking about his name and just remember him as the nearly dead guy.
Gritting her teeth, she made her way to the door, and she had no choice but to open it a little.There was a single chain, but Jane knew that would not stop anyone from getting inside.It was an illusion.
“Talk,” she said.
“I’m here for Alexey,” he said.
He sounded like the voice over the phone.
“I don’t want to know names,” she said.
Opening the door, she turned to see that the nearly dead guy had come into the hall.She watched as the two men went to his side, and she was not going to think of him as Alexey.
The two men turned to her, and she shook her head.“Leave,” she said.
They looked at each other, and the man in their arms was already passing out.She had done what she needed to do.This was over for her.
****
One Week Later
Alexey Baranov glanced down at the file he had been given on Jane Adams.There was not a lot to go on.A list of her recent employment, a record of her education.No family.No one even knew the day she was born, so the day she was found was registered as her birth date.
She was suspected, along with a few other kids, of killing one of the foster parents.Nothing came of it, because the evidence against the foster parent was too much for them to justify punishing the kids.
Jane Adams was nothing to look at.She was a nobody.Not even pretty.No one would notice her in a room.Yet, Alexey couldn’t get her out of his mind, because when he had been ambushed by the Morello mafia, he had nearly died.
Jane killed Frank Morello.Alexey watched her do it.She ran him down with her car, and admittedly, the bastard had it coming.He was not a good man.Frank had been one of the worst pieces of shit to ever roam this earth.The only problem was, Frank was Vincent Morello’s son.Jane had killed the heir to the Morello mafia.
Alexey knew it was only a matter of time before they figured that shit out.He’d spoken to Nikolai.She had used his cell phone while he was passed out to call his friend and get him out of her apartment.She was not stupid.She didn’t ask any questions, she gave facts, and in return wanted no information or reward.
This plain Jane had saved his life.
Alexey could have any woman.A click of his fingers and beautiful women could be lining up to service his cock and fuck him for the rest of the day, to wipe his mind of all the bullshit.He didn’t do it.He didn’t snap his fingers, nor call a woman to come and please him.Plain Jane wouldn’t get out of his mind.
“You look like someone has just come and shit on you,” Nikolai said, walking into the room.
There were three men he trusted.Nikolai was one, Makar another, along with Igor.They had his back right from the start.
“What are you doing here?”he asked, closing the file he had on Jane.
Seeing her would not help his battle.
“I wondered if you saw this?”Nikolai asked, as he held up a computer key fob.
“Saw what?”Alexey was not in the mood to play word games.He just wanted to be left alone so he could deal with whatever fucked-up shit was going on in his head.
Clearly, he wasn’t dealing with the attack.It hadn’t been planned.It was the first time in a long time Alexey had let his guard down, and if it hadn’t been for Jane, he’d be dead right now.This was all that kept ringing in his head.He hadn’t even noticed the car following him.
“Have a look,” Nikolai said.
