Page 91 of Born into Chaos

Roman laughs. “It’s so funny that you think they’re going to wait for your approval. They’re getting married, and we all know you’re already attached to Samantha.”

“And he saved Sveta’s life,” Danil reminds him.

I look up at Vitaly and give him a big, drug-induced smile. “You’re attached to our daughter?”

No matter how violent of a man Sveta’s dad can be, he’s a giant softie for his family, just like I am, so I’m not at all surprised when he meets my eyes and says, “She’s my first granddaughter. Of course I’m attached to her.”

Before I can smile too big, he points his finger at me, “But if you ever hurt my daughter, I will kill you, Vitya.”

I hold up my hands in surrender. “I won’t even try and defendmyself. You can hack off my giant penis and let me bleed out from the gaping wound.”

His brothers laugh while Vitaly just shakes his head, giving me awhat the fuck am I going to do with youlook.

Roman pats my leg and says, “I’m going to have so much fun reminding you of this conversation once the drugs are out of your system.”

“Already got you covered, brother,” Lev says, holding up his phone with a big grin on his face. “I recorded the whole thing. Sveta’s going to love this, especially the part where you say your dick is her favorite toy.”

Vitaly groans. “Let’s never fucking speak of this again.”

“I may have already sent it to the family group chat,” Lev admits with a laugh.

“Fucking awesome,” Matvey says, grinning over at his brother.

“Yelena’s getting older,” Vitaly reminds him, but Matvey just shakes his head.

“My daughter is way too sweet to fuck a bodyguard. Besides, she’s more than happy to stay at home with her family. She’s a daddy’s girl through and through,” he says, and I’m grateful that I at least have enough sense left in my brain to keep my mouth shut. The last thing I want to do is tell Val’s secret.

Lev quickly distracts everyone by saying, “My daughter isn’t too sweet to fuck a bodyguard. That’s why I’m only assigning older, happily married men to watch over her.” He laughs and shrugs his shoulders. “I love her more than life itself, but she’s a wild little thing, and I’m not blind to it.” He looks around at his brothers. “Did you see the cut she gave Dario?”

I can hear the pride in his voice when he talks about her, and it makes me wonder what Samantha is going to be like, if she’ll be sweet and quiet like Yelena or wild and fearless like Mia, or maybe she’ll just always be slightly prone to trouble like Sveta. There’s no way to know, but I do know that I’ll love her unconditionally no matter what.

“Can you ask Sveta to come down and bring Samantha with her?” Iask Vitaly, because just thinking about her has my chest aching with the need to see the two of them.

“I will, but I want you to know something first. My daughter lived down here for a week just so she could be close to you. Her mom and I had to bring her food and then force her to eat it, and then we had to promise to watch over you while she got cleaned up. I didn’t even know she was capable of showering that damn fast.”

He steps closer and looks down at me, running his eyes over my bandaged chest. “She loves you, Vitya, and I would never do anything to hurt her. You saved her life, and I won’t ever forget that. I’m still pissed you disobeyed me and went behind my back, but I’m not going to stand in the way of you marrying her.” He gives me a faint smile. “I think we both know it wouldn’t do any good anyway.”

“She is stubborn,” I say.

He nods. “Just like her mom.”

I laugh because his refusing to admit that she gets it from him is just further proof that she absolutely gets it from him.

I’m surprised when he reaches out and gives my arm an affectionate squeeze. “I’ll send her down.”

“Thanks, Vitaly,” I tell him, not bothering with the Mr. Melnikov since he’s about to be my father-in-law.

“We’ll have to assign someone else to watch over her, but we can figure that out later. Just rest and heal up.”

He gives my arm another pat before turning around and walking off with his brothers. While I wait, the drugs start to wear off, and with the pain in my chest comes the realization of everything I just said to her dad. I groan at thefavorite toycomment and hope I was just hallucinating when Lev said he’d filmed it all.

Sveta bursts that bubble when she walks in with a smiling Samantha and says, “I can’t believe you told my dad your dick was my favorite toy, Vitya.”

I’m so happy to see them both that all I can do is smile and say, “It’s the truth, though, isn’t it?”

“My entire family is watching that video right now.”

I’d laugh if it didn’t hurt my chest so much, so I just grin and say, “I’m really sorry. I don’t know what Tony gave me, but it was strong.”

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