Total pages in book: 31
Estimated words: 28975 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 145(@200wpm)___ 116(@250wpm)___ 97(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 28975 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 145(@200wpm)___ 116(@250wpm)___ 97(@300wpm)
Bogdan Evanoff didn’t want to get married. He is a monster. His only job is to kill and to keep his boss, the head of the Galkin Bratva safe. He is the best at his job. No woman would want to be married to him. He was surprised when Anastasia’s father gave him permission to kill her if she wasn’t a virgin on their wedding night.
She was a virgin.
He wants to learn why her father wants her dead. And what he discovers … he knows he is going to keep her safe. His wife has inherited all of her mother’s fortune. Her father doesn’t get a penny. Bogdan knows the greed of the man knows no bounds.
Although he is quite taken by his young bride but when it comes to the end, will he keep her, or will it be too late to save her?
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Chapter One
My father wants me dead.
Anastasia Evanoff stood at the party, holding a glass of wine, not daring to drink it, trying not to look in the direction of her husband. Everyone was giving her a wide berth, and this had been the same since they were married. Nothing changed. She didn’t know why Bogdan brought her here. No one could stand her.
Prior to getting married, she’d been a Rinaldi. Her father had been looking for a way to get rid of her for years. Now, at the age of twenty-one, she was married and knew she would be lucky to survive to twenty-two. She imagined the only reason she made it to her current age was the fact that it was her birthday on the day of the wedding ceremony. She didn’t know what business her father had with Bogdan Evanoff that would result in her marrying him.
First, her father was part of the Italian mafia, and Bogdan was part of the Bratva. Her late mother had told her to never get involved with her father’s business, and so far she’d been able to steer clear of everything. Maybe it was because she and her mother for the longest time had lived apart from her father. Anastasia didn’t know what had brought her parents together, but she had a rough idea what separated them—her.
Her mother, Evelyn, had a difficult pregnancy, and after she gave birth to Anastasia, she nearly died. It resulted in Evelyn losing her ability to have children. There would be no son and no heir for her father, Dante. So, rather than continue to love his wife, he moved her out to the country, saw her sparingly, and from all accounts, replaced her with his favorite mistress.
For eighteen years Anastasia grew up without her father, but she had the love and devotion of her mother. They wanted for nothing. All the while, she knew her father had another woman, and he also had children with that woman—several sons, and a couple of daughters. After Evelyn passed away, Dante married his mistress, securing his heirs and his position within the family he worked for. Anastasia was moved out of her country home, and most of her possessions were given to her sisters or sold.
She had a much smaller room at their townhome, and she was considered a vulture. Her so-called brothers couldn’t stand her, nor could her sisters. She didn’t conform or comply.
When her brothers attempted to attack her, she had never been more grateful to her mother for her insistence on the self-defense classes she’d been forced to attend. Fighting was not something she liked, however, she was good at it.
Gustov, the man her mother got to train her, would not allow her to leave his lessons without learning something. Then, of course, he would attack her to make sure she had picked up whatever she needed from the lessons. It had been three years since she saw Gustov. She missed him. He attended her mother’s funeral.
Much to her father’s annoyance, her mother had been loved by most of the family, including the boss man himself, Piero.
None of her mother’s popularity had stopped her father. After a week, it was like she didn’t exist. So, when her brothers started to hurt her, she put them in their place, as she did her sisters.
She tried to steer clear of any conversation at parties, but these people had been friends with her mother, and some she recognized. They tried to bring her out of her shell, but it was all for nothing. Her father had other plans for her.
Just because she tried to be invisible at parties didn’t mean she wasn’t aware of the tumultuous relationship between the Italian mafia and the Bratva. Especially the Galkin Bratva. The very one her husband worked for.
She didn’t know the exact details, just the rumor that Bogdan was the boss’s right-hand man. Only, he was like the executioner within the Bratva. It was his job to hunt and kill. Bogdan Evanoff had a reputation that terrified her.
Their marriage was a business negotiation. She didn’t know the specifics, but she had already lost her virginity to her husband on their wedding night. A ceremony her father had insisted upon. In the morning, the vultures had circled. She had a horrible feeling her father wanted her dead on her wedding night. Did he believe she hadn’t been a virgin? She would think so from his reaction.
As it happened, she loved her mother and spent as much time with her as possible. She knew, in some weird way, Evelyn had loved Dante. There were times she caught her mother crying, and there was no way of ignoring it. Her mother was so sad at losing the love of Dante Rinaldi. She had poured all that love into her daughter. Anastasia became the woman she was today because of her mother.