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I kept my eyes averted to the goings-on in the club, listening to every word. My understanding of the language was pretty good, but listening to this heated conversation and trying desperately to catch every word as the men spoke over each other was difficult. When the Purity Nikola had ordered arrived, I thought it best to nurse the drink but Nikola tsk’d me so I downed the first few shots with a smile. That appeared to make him happy.
    Nikola and the group of men argued back and forth about how they should handle a threat to their territory but I couldn’t figure out exactly who the threat was. Either they were speaking in code or they saw no need to name the threat out loud. Either way, I had nothing to go on there... yet. As the men continued the meeting, I realized the men before me were brigadiers, their sole purpose to lead smaller groups of the Grekov organization around the city. They were all worried about their territory being infringed upon.
    “ Nikola we must make a move ,” said a man named Alik with a heavy Russian accent. “ The Russo family must know we will not let them take what is not theirs without retaliation .”
    Nikola nodded, seeming to think for a beat before responding. The other men were nodding harshly, obviously very strongly in agreement with Alik.
    “ The boss would agree but before we make a move we must consider all options. Acting in any way would cause a war. Are you ready for that? ” Nikola asked, his eyes alight with a cold frustration that spoke of the intensity of the situation at hand.
    Alik and the other men answered in almost complete unison. “ Da! We are ready for what comes. ”
    “ Then prepare your men and I will speak to Konstantine ,” Nikola said. “ As with all things, he makes the final call. ”
    Heads nodded all around, my body tensing up with the knowledge that war was coming to New York and little could be done to stop it. The group of men shook hands and left, paying no mind to me or the goings-on in the club. I wasn’t surprised by that. They had plenty to deal with, it seemed, and I had finally received my first bit of evidence to bring down the Grekovs. It may not be drug-related but it was a start, and that, in my opinion, was better than nothing.
    Sitting beside Nikola, I watched him out the corner of my eye while drinking yet another shot of Vodka. The conversation with the captains of the five boroughs had obviously not gone the way he had intended. He pulled his phone from his jacket pocket and made a call. I listened carefully to the one-sided conversation as Nikola spoke heatedly in Russian to his father. Nikola informed him of the Russo territory infringement and the concerns of the captains. The consensus, from what I gathered, was that they must send a message to the Italians. I hadn’t done any research on the Italian mafia so I still didn’t know exactly what was going on, but his conversation had provided a few more pieces to the puzzle. My assignment just got more interesting.
    Nikola stood, straightening his suit before turning to me. I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, much like the day the agents had been killed. Considering the Russians were having problems with the Italian mafia, and hearing it first-hand, could be the reason for the worry, but I felt it was much more than that. Before I could continue my morbid thoughts Nikola helped me up, wrapping his arms around my waist and pulling me against him. His lips crashed down on mine, making my knees weak. When we finally broke apart, we were panting like teenagers in the back seat of a car on prom night.
    “Come home with me.”
    “O... Okay.”
     

CHAPTER TWELVE
     
    With Corsica on his arm, Nikola stepped into the cool night air. He wasn’t sure what it was about this woman that had him acting like a young boy, but it felt good. Ivan had been right in his assessment of the woman. She was nothing like the company he usually kept. Maybe her innocence was what he found