Page 60 of Cookie: Part One
Mikhail just tilts his head the slightest bit, barely noticeable, while Dimitri’s hand moves, grabs her back of her neck, and slams her face into the marble hard. There’s a sickeningcrackfollowed by a low groan.
I stagger back into Alik and gasp, clapping my hand over my mouth, but no one else even flinches, not even Alik.
…wh-what the f—I try to step up, but Alik grabs me, his jaw tight, looking just as pissed… like he wants to kill her.God… not Alik too…
“In my house, you follow ze Bershov fucking rules… if ze Bershovs say serve, you fucking serve,” Mikhail grits and Dimitri drags her ass across the floor, throwing me off by his strength because he doesn’t look like he should be that damn strong.
“Take her downstairs. Nadya search her belongings.”
“Da.” Dimitri drags her away screaming and Nadya struts off to do his bidding and my heart is racing as I stare at the blood on the floor while she begs as she’s dragged away, and I stand frozen, my breath caught somewhere between my lungs and my throat but Alik holds me still.
“That’s enough!” I burst out. “She’s just a girl, Mikhail, what if shereallydoesn’t know?”
“Zhen she has nozhing to fear,” he answers coldly, like the bitch won’t need a nose job after this.
“W-well… a-and what if she does know… wh-what does she have to fear then?”
“Us.” He turns to me slowly and I look around at the resolute faces of Alik, Pyper and Misha. Their eyes lock onto mine and I see something flash in them.What the hell kind of family is this?
“I vill not have you sleeping alone anymore. Move her zhings to my room,” he demands and I blink repeatedly, shook. “Yes, Heir,” the staff reply in unison, rushing off while the family converses about who could have left it. Only Veronica stays rooted in place, shooting daggers at me, but no one pays attention to her.
“Wait, what?! Hold the phone! You want me to move to your room?” I lift a brow, looking at him, still in Alik’s arms, expecting Misha to say something but it’s Alik who turns me around.
“Connie, I hate to admit it but you’re probably safer vit him… vee don’t know vhat happened or hov zhat person got into your room, but,” Alik frowns with a pained expression on his face. “I vish it could be me…” He trails off. “J-just stay vit Misha,. I’ll come over often.”
“You guys are treating me like I’m a baby.”
“Da you are.” Misha comes over, cupping my chin, trapping me between him and Alik. “You’re our baby,” he states, leaning in to kiss me, causing my stomach to do flips. I hear a growl before Veronica stomps off down the hall and Pyper sneers. My eyes pop open when I feel something poking my belly and Misha smirks, pulling away as I notice Alik is panting, his cheeks flushed.
“I vill go question security cameras and ze rest of ze staff, Misha… ifVeronicahad anything to do vit this...” Pyper glares. “She vill have to answer to me,” she warns before she bows out and I’m stuck between Misha and Alik, both of them silently giving each other a look of concern. I chew my lip, unsure what this feeling is bubbling up inside me.
“Go put our Pechenye to bed, now.” Misha smirks and Alik sighs, pulling me along towards Misha’s room. Iwantto argue, but as we pass the box, a chill runs through me and all I can think about is that gift showed up when it shouldn’t have, how no one saw anything, and how I don’t feel safe in my safe heaven anymore.
And that to me is the most tragic feeling of all.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CONSTANCE
The unsettling presence in the house has me spooked, but I can hardly focus on it because of Alik, who’s overseeing my things being brought into Misha’s room.
As the last maid leaves, he turns to me, sitting on the bed. I assume he’s getting ready to leave, but to my shock, he comes over and pulls me into his arms, something he hasn’t done since well before our breakup.
“Connie,” he says, his voice low, gravelly against my back. As he pulls me closer to him, his embrace stronger than I expected. “I vish,” he murmurs into my hair, his grip tightening just a little. “I vish I could protect you from all the anxieties zhat come vit zhis family, vit zhis life vee pulled you into.”
“Wh-what does that mean?” I ask and he kisses the top of my head as he breathes in deep.
“Nozhing…” he groans his weird-feeling heart vibrating fast against me as he takes another deep breath.
“Th-that doesn’t sound like nothing, but more than tha… Alik, wh-what are you doing?” I ask as I feel him swell under my ass, his breath against my neck, making me shudder.
“Zh-zhis room… I can smell and picture everyzhing you do vit him,” he whispers and goosebumps raise on my arms.
My heart starts to beat faster, frantic, and uneven. I can feel my body’s temperature rise as a slow, deep heat pools in my pussy.
Then, a sudden, blindingflashcrosses my mind. I see myself, sprawled on dark silk sheets, Alik between my legs, his eyes a smoldering red. And Misha, his grin predatory and possessive, holding me open for him as he’s shoved deep inside of me… Nadya and Dimitri panting like dogs for a taste. The image hits me with the force of a tidal wave. My entire body rocks forward and goes tight, cream spilling from me in a stifled gasp.
Alik groans, shaking, his dick jumping, straining under me as he chuckles, and it vibrates deep in my ear causing a bead ofsweatto trickle down my back.
