Page 52 of Bought By Sin

We watched it together, but he glanced at me with a frown. “Didn’t you already review this?”

I shook my head.

“You didn’t even want to stop on the drive and see what you had?”

I had stopped, but it wasn’t to preview the dead ends we’d captured on video. “No. I thought it best to bring it to you.”

He furrowed his brow and resumed watching. The feed showed the dockside buildings, the rain, the men down below. Then the rush that Mila and I endured crawling and running out of there. The bounce and fast blurring motion of the cameras as we sprinted to the car ended once we got in the car.

Thank fuck I had the foresight to end the recording then.

Otherwise, my cousin would’ve had an awkwardly personal porno to watch.

I mentally cringed at the idea of any man seeing Mila like that.

But now that the idea entered my mind, I wondered what it’d be like to make a little keepsake like a video of the next time⁠—

“What changed?” Adrik asked. “What made you retreat?”

“Mila.”

He raised his brows.

“Mila noticed the snipers across the street and we ran.” We discussed a little more about the fact that Gregori or Yusef had arranged that much security at that location. It had to mean they were aware of being in danger this near the Volkov empire and the family estate. Adrik would send the footage to the IT team so they could use facial recognition and other tools to see who had been meeting down there on that route since it wasn’t Gregori or Yusef.

I left him with the report and headed home. When I showered before going to bed, I thought ahead to what else I could do with Mila. Not only to pursue this connection borne of desire and curiosity, but also in terms of trying to lock down a location on Gregori or Yusef. They were the top two of the network, and it seemed prudent to take them down before the entire organization could try to attack us any further.

In the morning, I waited for Mila to show up, as expected. I already had a list of tasks I’d like to begin checking off, primarily interviewing and investigating the leads my cousins and Alexei and I had been thinking of. The Konstantin family. The Cartels again. Some others in the city. Viktor seemed convinced that an up-and-coming politician, Rico Johnson, was a shady character who might be included in the group of people Gregori could be bribing for a favor.

“Am I going to train today?” she asked once she’d finished her breakfast. She’d dressed for a day in the gym.

“No. You’re going to go change and accompany me.”

“Change?” She raised her brows.

“Yes. Change into something more suitable for being in the city and stopping in to chat with some individuals.”

She hesitated to get up.

“Didn’t you hear me last night?” I smirked as I stood. “Or did you fuck me so hard that your brains were rattled?”

She pulled her lips in and pressed her teeth on them. No reply, at least not in words. The look of shyness on her face was answer enough that I was getting to her.

“I told you that you’ll be glued to my side. If we’re going to play along with the idea that you’re my ‘assistant’ and keep things vague, then go change and look like my assistant.”

She didn’t argue, but when she showed up in a skirt and blouse, looking “fancier” than the sexy-gritty appearance she’d had so far, I wondered how long I’d last before needing to fuck her.

Fortunately, and unfortunately, there weren’t any opportune moments to bend her over a surface and fuck her. She came with me as I checked into who could have a lead about Gregori or Yusef. I took her everywhere. But work came first. We got some leads and were taken down some wild goose hunts, too.

Even though the sexual tension simmered between us and never faded, I lacked the place or time to have my way with her. Often, Alexei or one of my cousins accompanied us, as we were all equally invested in ending the threat of Gregori.

They also began an annoying habit of giving me hell about dragging her around with me.

“Maybe if you want anyone to actually fucking pay attention and tell us useful shit,” Maksim said after we met with some runners who’d defected from a Cartel that Yusef had practically taken over and ruined with the following infighting, “you could let Mila stay back. If you keep taking her with you everywhere, men are going to notice her and be distracted.”

“They just need to know where to look,” I replied as we walked from my house after another long day of meeting with people. It’d been three days since I’d fucked her and I felt like I was going out of my mind with refraining. We had been that busy, though. Too busy to forge ahead on this newfound lust that we couldn’t silence.

Maksim huffed. “I don’t think it was worth it to fucking knock out that boss just for glancing at her like that.”