CHAPTER 14
ELENA
Elena paced up and down the carpet. She was stuffed back in the room she’d woken up in after she injured a Bratva soldier. Vasili had grabbed her first. Hit her first. Was going to do much worse, given the chance, but none of that mattered. Not in their world. There, she was just collateral, a nobody. Vasili had demanded her blood, and she had been ushered away by some guy called Yuri, awaiting the fallout ever since. Anxiety rode her hard, making her heart beat as if it were on steroids.
Being a lioness was great when you were in a jungle and were top dog. Not so much when you were imprisoned inside a fortress filled with burly men carrying guns. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
When was she going to learn? The best-case scenario was they would kill her. The worst-case was she
