Chapter 28

• Her eyes widen. “You do? Why haven’t I met him?”
• “He doesn’t live in the country,” I say, pausing to admire the bag’s craftsmanship. “We don’t have the same mom. My father had… well, I guess you’d call it a ‘past life’ with Viktor’s mother. She never wanted anything to do with the Bratva, refused to raise her son anywhere near it. So she stayed in Europe, kept Viktor with her in London, away from all this.”
• Yelena strokes her chin thoughtfully. “And your father let her? That doesn’t seem… typical.”