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The leader knew who he was. Nikolay was the infamousPakhanof the Russian Mafia, so of course, he did.

“I’m listening,” he finally replied.

Nikolay grinned and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows and took in the little people below. He was just a few steps away from being more powerful than all the kings in history.

“Good. Then I need to meet in person. There is no device secure enough for what I have to share with you.”

“You have big balls, Mikhailov. You have thirty seconds to prove you aren’t wasting my time.”

He’d only need five.

“I knew about the vampire race months ago. I’ve met them and I know how to enslave them.”

Silence.

“Trakhni menya.”

Which, translated into English, meant fuck me.

Nikolay poured himself a shot of vodka and tossed it back. There was some shuffling of paper and furniture through the phone as he waited.

“A car will collect you in one hour to fly you to Moscow.”

Then the line went dead.

Nikolay slid the device into his pocket and turned to his team.

“Get the case out of the safe. We’re going to the Kremlin.”

CHAPTER NINE

ELLA

Mack kissed me.

Ella lay on her bed later that afternoon, after a restless sleep, and her body tingled all over while recalling what happened between her and Mack.

He’d kissed her.

Not just kissed her! He’d lifted her into his arms, and she’d felt his manhood pressed into the space between her legs, which ached for him.

Then, as if he wasn’t affected, told her it would never happen again. Just turned off and went cold.

Another rejection.

At least, that was consistent.

Since arriving in Maine, everything about him seemed different. And yet the same.

He desired her, she’d felt it. And not just in the way that vampires did because they were horny. This was more. A hunger on a scale she’d never experienced.

Ella had been breathless and seen the desire on his face. Felt his hard cock. It wasn’t one-sided.

Right?

The way he’d held her like she belonged in his arms, like he was as desperate to taste her as she needed him to. When Mack had picked her up and their bodies had connected, she would’ve done anything for her clothes to incinerate.

To have his hard cock slip inside her.