***
"And how exactly do you think I've been ambling for your attention, hmm? All I've been doing is reacting to the circumstances presented before me. You're delusional."
I kept him talking, weighing my options as I tested the waters. His hold on me had not relented, his mouth hovering over my ear as goosebumps spread across the back of my neck. I willed my heart to calm down and my mind to think rationally but his hand clutching my neck in a firm but not bruising hold and the gun against my ribs held me in place.
"In as much as I have been enjoying these little games we've been playing, malyshka, you know very well that you have been naughty all around. You not only raided the house of my New York Derzhatel Obshchaka Bogdan but you also took his wife in. Soon after, four of my clubs we
