Kiara:
I held on the blanket. My back to Nikolay as I laid on bed, pretending to be asleep.
Nikolay raised himself and put his hand on my bare arm. I was wearing a crop top and pajama shorts. He ran his finger on it softly before leaning down and kissing my shoulder “I know that you’re awake princess”
I didn’t answer, my mind racing with what I heard Claudia say. My father wed me to a man wanting to ruin both my and his life, he really wanted me to betray the man I married despite threatening me to kill mother if I did anything that would ruin the peace treaty between the Brook and the Ivanov family. Mum’s life was on the line, but he expected me to go mad and try and betray my husband, negotiate with him against Nikolay. Then there was Grace who initially wanted to kill me. Claudia who was spying on me. What the hell was I living?
“Baby girl” Nikolay said trying to turn me around, but I tensed not wanting to face
Nikolay:I wrapped my arm around Kiara who sat in my arms. Her head on my chest as I read through the papers I had to check. Vladimir sent me the papers as to review them, there were things that needed taking care of in the clubs back home in the States. Caruso sent us the documents of everything going on back home. Things were well, but we needed a higher budget of money, that shouldn’t be an issue. The things just needed my approval.I smiled at Kiara who was reading her own book on her tablet. She was too focused on it that she didn’t realize that I was looking down at her. I kissed the crown of her head making her look up at me and smiling. She raised herself to kiss my lips and I smiled into the kiss “do you want to go out for a bit?”I rested my forehead against my wife’s forehead and she smiled at me, looking down at the papers that were in my hands raising an eyebrow at me “don’t you have work to take care of?&rd
Kiara:“I called Keram” I said walking out of the bedroom. Nikolay was speaking to Vladimir, Alexei, and Viktor who came a while ago while I was speaking to Keram. I nodded at the three men and they smiled at me as I walked toward my husband and sat on the armrest of his couch beside him “he’s willing to help with whatever we need. But I haven’t told him that we would be working with Richard, he’d have to find that out later”“Don’t worry about that. He’ll just have to see Richard himself. The man might snap or even try to kill Richard, but we’ll just have to find a way to stop him from doing so” Nikolay said and I nodded looking at the three men who kept their eyes on me trying to read my expression.“I’m not hostile yet, don’t worry” I told them rolling my eyes before getting up and heading toward the bedroom “I’ll be in the room if you need anything&rdq
Nikolay:“Are you sure that you’re okay with this baby?” I asked Kiara. The two of us were going home despite me not wanting her to be around the house for a while, the two of us knew that we needed to be at home for more security, to ensure that everything was confidential, and that no one was following any of us.“You and I both know that it has to be this way Nikolay. We’ll try to arrange something with Harry for him to get the Ritz under Mafia Safe grounds, only then can we meet there and know that no one will be watching or actually daring to harm any of us” Kiara said answering me and I nodded taking her hand in mine and intertwining our fingers.“Are you happy being my wife Kiara?” I asked softly. The question has been running through my mind since yesterday when Grace, Claudia, and Richard were over. Then what she said to Vladimir, I hadn’t opened my mouth to speak of the subject in front of the men,
Kiara:“Come, sit beside me dear” Uncle Dimitri said softly. Sitting on the couch and tapping the spot by his side. Hesitating for a second, I walked to his side and sat down by his side where his had was a few seconds earlier and he smiled. His eyes were gentle as he looked at me. He took my hand in his and squeezed it softly.“You know, Mia got pregnant a few months before she was pregnant with Nikolay” Uncle Dimitri said gently. His eyes staying on mine as he spoke, his thumb softly running over my finger “she lost the child a month after we found out about him. She was just as broken as you are now. If not more…”“Need I ask why you’re telling me this?” I asked wanting to remove my hand from Uncle Dimitri’s but Uncle Dimitri tightened his grip on it, though he made sure not to hurt me. I raised an eyebrow at him and he smiled.“You’re just as impatient as Nikolay” Unc
Nikolay:I paced around the bedroom as I waited for Kiara to come back from the living room.I knew that I promised Ivan not to interfere in whatever they were going to be saying or whatever conversation they were currently having. But fucking hell was this getting harder.The door to the bedroom was knocked snapping me out of my daze as I turned to find the door opening and Kiara walking inside. Her eyes lit up when she saw me and she instantly ran toward me, wrapping her arms around my neck taking me off guard as I pushed her away to look at her in fear that he had hurt her. I would kill him if he did.“Are you okay? Did he say anything that bothered you? Kiara, I swear if he did a bullet would…” Kiara stopped me by connecting our lips. Her hands cupping my cheeks as she ran her finger over my scruff. My arms instantly wrapped around her waist as I pulled her closer somewhat deepening the kiss before we pulled away to look at one anot
Kiara:“What are we going?” I asked Nikolay with a raised eyebrow. It’s been an hour since everyone left and Nikolay decided that him and I should go out. He had been walking around the bedroom trying to convince me to go out since.“A little date” Nikolay said smirking and I smiled keeping my eyebrow raised at him. He chuckled and wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me closer to kiss my forehead, I smiled and laid my head on his chest wrapping my arm around his neck as I stood on my toes “I figured that you would spend some time with me alone away from the house”“Don’t worry. I’m okay with everything going on. I’m mad at anyone and I’m not hostile…”“And I would like to keep you in this not hostile mood. Come on, a little date would be good for the two of us. Plus, I’ve already planned everything out” Nikolay said making me frown in confusion. H
Nikolay:“So, you two plan on getting into war with a bastard who is playing with everyone’s life?” Timur asked and I looked at Kiara who nodded at the man who raise an eyebrow at me, I knew that he was surprised that I would be agreeing to put my wife into something like this. Especially since he knew how much I worried about and protected my wife “and you agreed to this?”“Not like I had another option, Grace and Claudia are in on this. We have to defeat the bastard before he puts anyone else’s life in danger” I said shrugging. Nikita kept her eyes on me studying my expression. She knew that I didn’t like this, putting my family’s life in danger was never something that I did. Especially not the women of the family. It was something that everyone knew about me, the Ivanov women were to be treated like queens, spoiled, cradled, loved, and cared for. Knowing that I was putting my sisters’ and wife’
Kiara:“Are you okay?” I asked Richard looking him in the eye. The man looked like he was going through hell and I couldn’t blame him. His little sister. The one person who was left of his family was in a life and death situation. If I were going to be honest, currently, we all were.“Don’t worry about me Kia, you should be worried about your family, the house…”“Do you really think that I would be worried about stones at the end of the day Richard? Have you not known me well and long enough?” I asked gently. Grace was sitting beside Richard holding his hand, their fingers intertwined but he removed his hand from hers and took both mine in his before bringing them to his lips and kissing my knuckles gently. His eyes stayed on mine as he did and I could see Grace tense at the sight of us.“I can’t thank you enough for this Kiara. You let go of everything that I did to you, you dropped it al
“Is everything ready?” Lilian asked looking at her lover. The man who she had defended and protected against the whole world despite being wrong. “Almost my love, just a few twitches and we’ll be set” Ian said programming the system as she wished it to be. The woman had turned out being deadlier than he had expected. He didn’t know of this side of her when Louis was alive. The maximum he thought she could do was cheat on him. But as it turned out, the woman had more to her than he had imagined and he didn’t want to admit it out loud, even though the woman technically saw it through his eyes. He liked this side of her. “I can’t wait for it to be ready! Our dreams will finally start coming true” she whispered looking at her lover who smiled. It had been five years since Louis had died and the Ivanov family got what they wanted. Five long years, and they’ve waited patiently for this moment. They have been working together on this project since the woman’s ex husband’s d
“Is this some kind of joke?” Kiara asked frowning in confusion, waking up in the familiar podium where she once grew up watching people die in front of her as she herself fought for her own life. “I don’t know, but I don’t like this” Richard said from beside Kiara. The two were trying to process how they even got here to begin with. People around them started coming to their senses as they woke up inside the podium. “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Bloodlust Games, The final chapter” ************************* Re-entering the Bloodlust games was never an option in Kiara’s life. But when revenge is on the line and both she and Richard are forced into them, they have nothing to do but survive, for it was either play and live. Or die…
“I do” Grace said looking Richard in the eye. Tears fell from her mother’s eyes as she watched her daughter say those two words.“I now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss the bride”Richard cupped Grace’s cheeks and connected their lips. Kissing her tenderly as if it was their first kiss. Everyone clapped for the happy couple, both Nikolay and Kiara looked at one another. Holding each other’s hands, their fingers intertwined. Nikolay brought Kiara’s hand to his lips and kissing her knuckle. His hand went to her stomach, where their little daughter grew.“Congratulations” Sebastian smiled at Nikolay who nodded at him. His hand holding Amalia’s, Lilian had been invited to come to the wedding but the woman chose to stay back and come when her grandchild was born. Her and Sebastian have agreed that she is freed however she would be under surveillance. His men were watching over her, the woman ha
Nikolay: “Baby girl?” “Yes, love?” Kiara asked turning to face me. The girl had been quiet since leaving her mother’s house and even though I didn’t want to bother her with talking about the subject. I couldn’t help but worry about her. “What happened inside there? Did she say anything that…?” “Nothing love, she didn’t say anything that I didn’t expect. The woman simply wanted to vent and I’m guessing that being put in the corner made her lose herself” Kiara answered looking out the window. The two of us have been driving for the past hour, I was initially supposed to take us back home. But seeing the state that my wife was in, I didn’t want her going home being upset. “When are we going back home? I mean to the States?” Kiara asked and I smiled at her taking her hand in mine and kissing her knuckle. “Believe me, even I miss it back there. No matter what the bullshit was, it was us and our family, none of the fucked up mess we’ve been
Kiara:I looked at the room which I’ve only entered a few times as I grew up.Father was once determined to let me learn and know every single code that existed in this place. I was the only one who knew of them. He wouldn’t even tell anything to mum about them, I didn’t understand why, but now I believe that I may know the reason behind his request.The woman has probably been cheating on him all along and the man might have known about it. He had his own affairs, however, their marriage was kept intact for the peace treaty between his and her family. Plus, the fact that he had a child, a daughter, well, me. He didn’t want me to find out about anything, knowing that it would probably end up turning messy if anyone finds out that he was being cheated on, and he as a man wouldn’t have accepted knowing that his wife was cheating on him. Well, that was the only logical explanation I could think of in such a situation.I remember
Nikolay:“Boss…” Vladimir said when he saw me walk down the stairs. It was a bit of a rough night with Kiara being in the pain that she was in. I couldn’t blame her for any of it, and I couldn’t stop her from letting out her pain. I wanted her to let it go, I didn’t want her to hold it in. I wanted her letting her pain out. To tell me how she was feeling, I didn’t want her breaking inside. Especially not when I could see right through her beautiful green eyes “Lilian woke up, Sebastian just called to inform us”I nodded at him and sighed running my fingers through my hair in frustration, as much as I didn’t want Kiara speaking to the woman. I knew that she wouldn’t be able to rest until she has, and because of that. I couldn’t stop her from seeing the woman.“How is she?” Vladimir asked sensing my anger and I sighed shaking my head.“She isn’t well, Vladimir.
Kiara:I sat by my mum’s bed after her surgery was done and the bullet that she got in her abdomen was taken out.Her hands were cuffed to the bed as she slept. I kept my eyes on her as I waited for her to wake up. I knew that she wouldn’t wake up anytime soon. The woman had been asleep for a while now. But I ordered that she was given something to keep her asleep for a while, I needed to process what happened first before she opened her eyes to speak to me. The woman would be seeing me as an enemy now, and I wouldn’t be able to blame her, in her eyes. I killed her husband, technically, I did take part in killing her. Even if it was a little bit.“Baby girl, you need to rest” Nikolay said walking inside the room. He kissed the crown of my head and I smiled at him leaning in to his touch, his hand softly massaged my shoulder and I raised my head to look at him “I don’t want you getting sick princess, your mom is supposed
Nikolay:“Nikolay, are you sure it’s a good idea to bring Kiara with us? You know that I don’t want her going through such pain” Sebastian asked looking at me. The man kept his voice low for his sister not to hear him even though she wasn’t close to earshot. The girl was talking to Maddie who was also coming with us. Everyone was technically coming, both to see Sebastian take his rightful place and to support Kiara in what is to come.My wife was to face her mother. The woman who had hid her brother from her throughout all those years, and if what Natalie said was true. Then that woman also cheated on her husband and Harry is a bastard child. All those thoughts ran through my mind as I looked at my wife suddenly fearing her coming with me. In all honesty, I truly didn’t want her coming with me. But I knew that she had to. First, as my wife, and second, as the man’s sister.“Believe me, I don’t want her to com
Kiara:“So, do you want to tell me how you became Crystal’s favorite uncle?” I asked and Nikolay chuckled as he wrapped his arms around my waist while I laid on my stomach on his chest. The two of us were still in the living room laying on the couch after our active afternoon. A light blanket covering our bodies. The blanket was one that we used when we were watching movies in the living room back home. And having come out of the hospital, and being here for a week. Nikolay refused to let me do anything that would exhaust me. Therefore, my best solution was movies and cuddles.I had noticed Crystal’s behavior around Nikolay at the hospital, she would tell him random stories and the two would spend ours talking while we were in the suite. According to Richard, Crystal would tell Nikolay stories to distract him from his pain while I was out conscious.“Well, one thing lead to another and she caught me crying in one of the hospital hal