Page 1 of Bratva, Baby

Andrei

I see her. She doesn’t see me, but I see her.

She’s standing just inside her new cubicle and she’s utterly ravishing in her midnight blue blouse that clings to her figure with her black pencil skirt.

Today is her first day here at LevCorp, the tech company I own.

Everything inside this building belongs to me, including her, whether she realizes it or not.

Now all I need to do is show her she is mine, but I’m not ready for her to see me for who I truly am just yet, so I head to my office and call my second-in-command, Alek, and we begin to plot. If things are going to work, I need to set things in motion quickly.

Working remotely gives me the benefit of none of the average employees knowing my face; this aids my plan to get close to Ava, since I plan on becoming Andy, the unassuming coworker who just started on her floor.

She cannot know my real identity, Andrei Sokolov, CEO of LevCorp and Pakhan of Bratva. Not until I’m ready for her to know.

I need to know everything about her, and I’ll do whatever it takes to get the information.

I first saw her when I was rewatching interview recordings.

She stumbled into the office 10 minutes late, sweaty and disheveled, yet even then, I couldn’t take my eyes off her.

She was beautiful despite the bad day her late bus had caused.

Her black hair was styled into a wild bob, and she wore black pants with a black blazer over a teal blouse.

I knew then that she was mine. That I would do anything to make it so.

Human Resources nearly passed her over, but the final say doesn’t rest with them.

Anger simmers under my skin at the thought that I nearly missed such beauty.

Who would she have ended up with? Some nobody neighbor who could never make her heart race?

No. That’s why I must become Andy Pabliski, just another coworker.

I need to know more about her, and I can’t learn it all from a private investigator.

Besides, this way I can prevent any of the tools on the floor from trying to take what’s mine.

I don’t fucking share, and I will kill any motherfucker who thinks they can take her from me.