Chapter 107

Juri threw his head back and laughed. “You can’t leave the bratva. This is your family, Marek.”

“I can. The contract we signed when you became head of the bratva allows for me to request leave once in my lifetime.”

Ria looked at me, shaking her head. “Marek, it’s…it’s okay. You don’t…”

I smiled down at her and brushed her cheek. “The both of us have done our time, zhena. I’ve been thinking, what it would be like for us to live normally. The two of us, raising a family, without the darkness looming over us.”

“Request denied. Now, moving on.” Juri waved his hand but Kaz caught his wrist.

“That’s now it works, Vor.”

Juri yanked his hand out of Kaz’s grip. “Why the hell not? I’m Vor. I decide who comes and who goes. Who can leave and who can’t.”

“Right. But there are consequences to saying no when one of us asks. Marek’s contract being the severest one of all of us.”

Kam nodded from her lean against the bookshelf. “Da knew that if Marek was forced to leave, forced to invoke the contract,