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Reunion (Part One)

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Ava

My mother had a saying.

The world is an unpredictable place.

It was a generic saying. One I knew that she was not the first to say but one she repeated often enough for me to align the saying with her name.

However, it isn't until this very moment that I understand why she said it so often.

I spot him before he sees me. He’s seated in one of the seats at the far end of the cafe which was partially covered by one of the dim lights of the cafe and a red brick wall that shielded more than half of his body from the window opposite from him.

The world was indeed an unpredictable place, I realized for the second time in the last ten minutes.

One minute, I'm prancing between classes, wondering what’s the difference between Renaissance and Baroque art, and the next, I'm inches away from the man, who’d been my only parental figure for more than half of my life.

The seat he’d chosen was tucked away within the shadows of the restaurant and despite the movements of the staff, one still had a
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  • Married To The Russian Mafia Boss    Gunshots, Arguments And Kisses

    Ava It all happens so fast. The room erupts into gasps and screams. Chairs scrape back as people fly from their seats towards the exit. Someone drops a spoon. And the entire cafe dives right into chaos.It takes no more than fifteen seconds for the entire place to empty out, leaving only Nikolai, my father, and me standing in the deserted café.The silence that follows is one that feels as suffocating as it looks. My heart thunders in my chest, and I can feel the tension crackling in the air like an electric storm. Nikolai was here. But how? He wasn't supposed to be here. I hadn't told him where I was going to be and the timing feels too calculated to be a coincidence. Nikolai’s gaze doesn’t leave my father as he steps closer, standing until he’s by my side. He uses his free hand to move me behind him, allowing his body to act as a shield between me and the man whose brown eyes resemble mine.The air around us thickens, the kind of heavy, dense silence that comes right before a st

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  • Married To The Russian Mafia Boss    Kisses And Confessions.

    AvaI struggle at first, my body refusing to give in to him so easily.I lied. His words ring in my head over and over again. If you died so would I.How could he say that so easily? He couldn't possibly have meant that, could he? But the way he'd looked at me as he said those words told me that he did. He meant every word. Another teardrop rolls down my cheek, the wetness mingling with our kisses, and Nikolai pulls back for a second, capturing the next and the next one after that until the tears are no more, and then he captures my lips again. I have no idea why I'm crying or why the tears can only be soothed by his kisses.Maybe it was because, after all this time, someone was finally seeing me, or maybe I was crying because, after all this time, it was him who was seeing me. There was something about the way Nikolai kissed me that made every blood vessel in my body come alive. The way his body pressed against mine as he cupped my face, kissing me harder and making me forget ever

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    Ava. “Try me.” A second passes, and a shaky breath escapes my lips. Nikolai’s breathing comes out in steady pants above me as my body hums with the aftershock of what could have been my orgasm. When he doesn’t move, I roll my hips once more against his erection, and his gaze grows wild with need. And then he snaps. He cursed in Russian, his grip tightening in my hair before he was on top of me. Kissing me. Devouring me. I gasp when he rips his mouth away, but it soon turns into a moan when he starts to suck and nibble on my neck. My hips roll, and hot pressure starts to build inside me when I feel his erection. My body goes still, and He lets out an amused sound when I feel the head of his erection nudge against my entrance. “Not so mouthy now, huh?” I want to hit him for teasing me, but I can’t move. He’s big. Really big and a part of me, no, scratch that; all of me is pretty sure he’s not going to fit. Nikolai must sense my hesitation because his teasing expressi

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    AVA I believe you have something that belongs to me. His words linger in the air for only a second before gasps erupt from the audience. My heart hammered against my ribs, and I blinked at the intruder in disbelief. His? What was he talking about? My gaze finds my father. He stands frozen, his lips slightly parted and eyes wide with shock as he looks at the man who called himself Nikolai. “What is going on Marcus!” Alessandro roared, his rage-filled gaze fixed on my father. His face filled with rage. A smile peaked at the corner of the intruder’s lips as he shoved his hands into his pocket. “It’s quite simple, Alessandro. You’ve been played.” Played? As if snapped from a trance My father looked up, his gaze finding mine amid the chaos. Remorse clouded his features. “Forgive me, Ava.” my father says, giving me an apologetic look. My brows knitted together as a slow wave of dread settled at the pit of my stomach, “What have you done?” “It was a long time ago.”

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    Ava It all happens so fast. The room erupts into gasps and screams. Chairs scrape back as people fly from their seats towards the exit. Someone drops a spoon. And the entire cafe dives right into chaos.It takes no more than fifteen seconds for the entire place to empty out, leaving only Nikolai, my father, and me standing in the deserted café.The silence that follows is one that feels as suffocating as it looks. My heart thunders in my chest, and I can feel the tension crackling in the air like an electric storm. Nikolai was here. But how? He wasn't supposed to be here. I hadn't told him where I was going to be and the timing feels too calculated to be a coincidence. Nikolai’s gaze doesn’t leave my father as he steps closer, standing until he’s by my side. He uses his free hand to move me behind him, allowing his body to act as a shield between me and the man whose brown eyes resemble mine.The air around us thickens, the kind of heavy, dense silence that comes right before a st

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