Elijah Clementine Kirovsky Regalonte "Ma'am," I greeted, bowing my head in front of the co-owner of Regalontes, the private security company where I work. "I don't remember asking you to come back home, Clementine." Home. Tumaas ang sulok ng mga labi ko sa sinagot nito. It wasn't an order but a reminder to come back every time I heard she would be in the country. Not because I needed to report to her about work, but because I knew the chaos that would happen at home whenever she returned. She and my father would play their usual game—a dangerous game of life and death. I walked towards her. Sitting on the couch was my mother, Elena Kamila Kirovskaya, 56, a retired Russian assassin. She is the co-owner of the private security company owned by my father, where I was a bodyguard. And

