Page 15 of Bratva Warriors 1
Chapter Nine
Owen shook his head.“I’m sworn to secrecy.I made a promise to that young man and I cannot break it.”
Sergi stepped over and stared at him.“You will not tell us?”
“You remember why we are not friends anymore?”Owen asked him.
Sergi paused to stare at him.“You told me...”His voice faded away then he sucked in a breath and went on, “Where a known criminal was.And then—”
“That criminal killed his hostages as soon as he saw your men outside,” Owen filled in the blanks.“Then killed himself.”
“Yes Olaf, and that wasn’t your fault.”
“Then why when I tried to get a hold of you right after that, they told me you were not accepting my calls?”
Sergi looked confused.“I never told—” He halted, then he looked angry.“We had a traitor in the ranks and he was head of the outer office in the Brtava building.We didn’t know he was selling info.We found him out after someone gave us evidence against him.He must have told you that I wasn’t accepting calls.Olaf, I looked for you a month later maybe and I did not find you anywhere in Moscow.”
“I had left.I had no family and you were pretty much my only friend.I went to London, then hated it.So after a few years I came here.I have a small place here but my friends are all street people.”
“Hmm...”Seergi studied him.“I may have a job for you later on.I wish to buy a few businesses to make into shelters.”
Owen snapped his head up to stare at him.Then he asked, “For the homeless?”
Sergi smiled.“Exactly.”Then he looked over at Briar.“I hope to have her as the CEO of the project.A person who can be trusted to do right by the people.”
Briar looked a bit stunned as she stared back at him.
“We are lucky that she is alive to possibly accept this position after she went out to do battle,” Felix said.“She could have been hurt.”
“I hurt others instead,” Briar replied as she raised her chin up at him.
Leon chuckled.“Si, we witnessed all of that.”
Briar looked over at him.“And just who the hell are you?”
Leon cocked his head at her and replied, “I am Leon Vincinti from Boston.”
“He and his men came to help us,” Sergi explained.“Seems, he knew your mother as well.”
Briar now stared at Leon.“Well goody for him, because I barely remember her.”
“And I could never forget her,” Leon spoke softly as he stared at her.
Narrowing her eyes at him, Briar replied, “Why don’t I like the sound of that?”
Leon shrugged.“I am unsure, but I wish to talk with you before I go back to Boston.”
Briar looked him up and down.“High class suit, worth more than some of the houses in the South Bronx.I mean just those Italian shoes you’re wearing would feed a family of six for six months, I will bet.Then all these security men.”She motioned her head to John and his men.“I bet you have a butler, maids, and a limo with a driver too, don’t ya?”She practically spat the question at him.
He raised a brow at her.“Do you know someone named Jelly Bean?”
Briar shook her head at him.
“Seems like you two could be sisters, maybe?”Leon glanced at John.
