The way she says it, her tone dripping with fear, makes me pay attention.
Alice and her team are not at fault here. They are merely doing the job they’ve been hired for.
Or maybe they haven’t been hired at all.
Maybe they’re here because someone, somewhere made a deal with the devil and now it’s payback time.
Maybe she’s as trapped as I am.
“Please, ma’am,” Alice continues. “If you struggle, it will be harder for all of us. The Bratva are dangerous men. If you stop fighting them and just accept your fate, things will go easier for you. For everyone.”
Her tone sobers me and I find myself nodding, despite myself.
I don’t want to accept anything. It’s not in me to just accept being dealt a bad hand. I will always be searching for a way out, a means to escape.
But I know I have to be s
