Page 135 of Sinful Promise

He reaches out to brush a stray strand of hair out of my face. “I know what you’re thinking. And yes, that means every single member of the Koslov family.”

He pauses to let the reality of his plans sink in.

Igor doesn’t just intend on murdering Danil and his brothers. He intends on murdering their wives and children too.

This time, I can’t stop myself from vomiting all over the floor.

My stomach aches from contracting so much, and my mouth tastes sour, but that is the least of my worries.

My sister and her family are going to die because of me.

“Please…”

“So, as much as I would like to keep you alive, Emily, you are ultimately a part of the Koslov Bratva too, which means you have to die. But, perhaps, I’ll save your sister and the twins for last.”

“You monster. They’re babies. What have they ever done to you?”

“It’s not what they’ve done, but what theywilldo, Emily. You see, I’ve been paying the price for not murdering Alexei and his brothers for the past fifteen years. The moment they learned the truth of who killed their parents, they’ve been doing their best to take me down. It’s like I’ve had a permanent thorn in my backside for the past decade, and I’m ready to be rid of it.”

“W-what if I promise you that they won’t?”

Igor looks at me for a moment before throwing his head back and laughing.

I catch sight of a few gold teeth in the back of his mouth that I wish I could rip out just to make him choke on them.

“You and I both know that would be a waste of time. Because that would involve me letting you go, and that’s simply not an option.”

I pull against the ropes around my wrists, but they feel as if they’ve gotten tighter.

He’s going to murder everyone I care about unless I can get out of here and try to get a message to Alexei.

It can’t end like this. There has to be a way to fix this.

I’m so lost in my own thoughts that I barely register the fact that Igor has left and locked the door to the basement, no doubt on his way to go and murder the love of my life.

Danil loves me so much that he’s willing to betray his family just to try and save my life.

But he should have known that the devil would never honor a promise.

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DANIL

My entire familyis dead if I don’t find some way of getting the hell out of here.

I can’t bear the thought of my brothers walking straight into Igor’s trap unprotected, but there’s no way I can get a message to them when I’m tied to a fucking chair.

I’ve put plenty of people in this situation, but I never expected to have been stupid enough to end up like one of them.

Igor has been gone a long time and from the sinking feeling in my stomach, I have a feeling he is with Emily.

I can barely stand to think of what he might be doing to her right now.

Igor is a sadistic man, and he would think nothing of torturing and abusing Emily to get me to break.

I’ve played right into his hand. I let myself get close to Emily, despite knowing the risk. I always knew something like this could happen, and yet I put my own selfish need for her above her own safety.

I deserve to fucking rot in this hell for what I’ve put her through. And if we somehow make it out of this situation alive, I’m going to spend the rest of my life making it up to her.

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