Page 134 of Bratva Jewels Box Set
His brows pinch together as he resumes eating his soup.
Frustrating the shit out of me. Is he really that cold-hearted?Of course, he is. Did you think your little sob story was going to crack him?Kind of hoped I would get something.
“My youngest sister, Alexandra, she was a drug addict,” Maxim explains.
Oh. That wasn’t at all what I thought he was going to say. “I’m sorry.”
“Thank you. The story does not have a happy ending.”
Neither will mine it would seem, but I stay quiet.
“I tried so many times to get her to detox, and she would, but then something or someone would happen, and she would be right back where she was again until eventually she OD’d,” he explains sadly as a dark cloud falls around him.
“I’m sorry, Maxim.” I know his pain. I thought we had lost Zoe and that thought was enough to devastate my heart.
“There is no need for your apologies, you did not know her,” he
says tightly.
Silence falls between us.
Thankfully the waiter appears again but notices the tension and scurries away.
“Thank you for helping me. You didn’t have to, but you did.” I find myself saying.
He gives me a tight smile as he silently turns his champagne glass around in his fingers before he speaks again. “So, you want to be a lawyer then?”
“I did at one time.”
My answer surprises him.
“Not anymore?” he asks.
I shake my head.
“Why?” he questions me.
“I no longer have faith in humanity.”
Maxim stays silent and then pours me another glass of champagne.
I take another sip of the bubbles, loving how they feel popping against my tongue. The golden liquid is giving me the confidence I lacked earlier.
“You seem to know a bit about me. Tell me about yourself. What do you do?” I ask him.
“Not sure if you’re going to like my answer.” He chuckles darkly.
“Nothing would surprise me.”
“Is that so?” He smirks, raising a brow at me as if daring me to prove it. “What do you think I do. I bet you can’t guess.”
“If I guess, what do I get in return?” I barter with him.
This makes him sit up a little. “You want to play this game?”
I nod my answer.
“Fine, I let you have your freedom.”
