Page 217 of Bratva Jewels Box Set
“He would be hoping someone on that list might bring one of the girls. Some of them would be attending especially the guys buying weapons.”
“We need to go to the ball.”
“No. I’m not risking you, Grace. We will find another way,” I tell her.
“You’ve been up all night trying to find other plans, and you have nothing. This is your only chance to find Elena and Anna. I won’t take that away from you and Sergei.”
“Grace, I can’t let you do that,” Sergei argues.
“This is not up for discussion, Grace. I forbid you to go,” I say angrily.
“You fucked up,” Mateo whispers to me.
Grace jumps out of my lap and stands in front of me with her hands on her hips. “How dare you tell me what I can and can’t do.”
“When it comes to saving your life, I don’t care how it sounds. You’re not going. We will find another way.”
“Let me help. I want to help. This is going to be our only chance,” she pleads.
“I can’t risk you, Grace. Do you understand? I can’t lose you.”
Grace falls to her knees in front of me as she places her hands on my legs. “I trust you with my life, Maxim. Please let me do this for you.”
“Wildcat, I can’t. Please don’t make me. Just hearing his voice last night gave you a panic attack. What will happen if you see him in the flesh? I will start shooting up that ball if he lays a finger on you and that means none of us will be coming out alive.”
“Maxim. Let me do this,” she says sternly.
“Grace, I think you should really think about this. I’m with Maxim. How are you going to be facing him?” Sophie asks gently.
“I have to go. You said they are expecting a Jewel and Zoe can’t go, can she, not with the baby,” she states, looking between Mateo and Tomas.
Oh, shit. Zoe’s pregnant.
“I can do it. Just because I’m pregnant doesn’t mean I’m an invalid,” Zoe says, walking out into the living room.
“Sweetheart, come. You know you can’t go. We won’t risk it,” Mateo says.
“But you’ll risk my sister?” she asks her fiancés. They don’t say a thing.
“Zoe, you can’t go. I will not let you sacrifice your happiness to save me,” Grace tells her sister.
“Zoe, you’re not going, period. Grace, it would make this easier for us as Dmitri is expecting you, but Maxim is a liability if you do go,” Sophie explains.
“We need to take Dmitri down once and for all. I’m sick of this one little man having so much control over me and my family. Enough is enough. We need to save your sister, and we need to find Anna.”
“It’s too dangerous, and I’m not just talking about Dmitri. He is only one person you need to watch,” I tell her.
“You’ll be there and so will Sergei.”
Sergei nods.
“I have two of the world’s best assassins protecting me. I think I will be safe.”
“No,” I say, digging my heels in.
“My sister is very strong-willed and stubborn. It will take a miracle for her to change her mind once it’s been made up,” Sophie tells me.
“I won’t allow it. Dmitri isn’t the idiot you think he is. He’s pure evil. He did way worse stuff to me than Nikolai ever did,” Zoe says, breaking down. Mateo and Tomas pull her into their arms.
