Mafia Boss's Fearless Lover (The Karzhov Crime Family series Book 1) Read Online Free PDF

carefully sealing them with the wax stick their parents kept in the desk drawer, imprinting their specially crafted seal onto it.
    Katya took her seat once again, feeling Nikolai’s eyes on her. “I wasn’t going to bother with trying to find you, but...,” she trailed off, unsure how to tell her uncle that she’d just met that his only sister had been killed by a Russian hit man from another mafia group, and that now they were after her.
    Danil slowly opened the letter, reading it slowly before calmly folding it back up and tucking it into the pocket of his suit jacket. He took a few moments to compose himself then cleared his throat and addressed Nikolai. “Where did you meet her?”
    Nikolai heard the undertones of a threat in Danil’s voice and chose to ignore the disrespect he saw forthcoming. After all, the man had just found out he had a niece and been told his sister was dead in the space of a few minutes. Any normal man would be off his game with those circumstances to deal with. And Danil wasn’t just any man.
    He was known for his fierce temper and lack of patience; traits that normally aided him well in dealing with members of the organization. Not so much when dealing with family. Instead of answering, he regarded Danil calmly, watching him come back to his senses.
    “Forgive me, Nik.” Danil realized he most likely was going to need Nikolai on his side in the next few minutes, and angering the head of the San Moreno Bratva was definitely not in his best interest.
    “Of course. Now, as to how and where I found your delightful niece, I believe it might be better if she were to tell this part of the story,” Nikolai said, turning his gaze towards Katya.
    Danil looked at Kat, “Well?”
    The anger in his voice put her on the defensive. She had done nothing wrong. Rather than getting confrontational, she took another tack. “I did some research on your name after reading some of my mother’s journals. She kept fairly detailed records of things, yet, I didn’t even know I was Russian until I opened that safe deposit box.”
    “Yet, you understand Russian,” Nikolai interjected, to see if she would confirm what he had already surmised.
    Kat inclined her head, “Yes, I understood your conversation with your bodyguards outside Zora’s.”
    “ Zora’s ? What in the hell was she doing at Zora’s?” Danil demanded angrily.
    Nikolai looked at Katya when he answered, “I believe she was just getting to that.”
    Katya could see the anger on her uncle’s face, but steeled her spine and continued anyway. “After realizing the connection between my parents and your…organizations—”
    “Call them what they are,” Nikolai shot back. He’d be damned if he’d let her try to sugarcoat her heritage. She had been born into the American-Russian mafia, and her grandfather had once controlled the entire West Coast organization, having served as their pakhan for thirty years prior to his stroke and eventual death. She wasn’t just Danil’s niece. She was the missing link that could possibly reunite the entire western mafia organization.

Chapter 9
    Danil watched Nikolai, already seeing where his mind was going and was torn between wanting to hide his niece away from the ugliness that came with belonging to the Bratva, and wanting to take her under his wing and tutor her to become a great leader amongst them.
    Turning his attention back to his niece, he demanded once more, “What were you doing at Zora’s?”
    “I found several pictures of you on the Internet in various casinos and a few at the clubs. One picture had the name of the club in it—Zora. It was taken several months ago. I figured if you had gone there once, maybe you would visit it again.”
    “So you visited a strip club, hoping to find me there?”
    “Well, I wasn’t exactly visiting it…I applied to be a dancer there—”
    “ What? ” Danil roared, turning to Nikolai for confirmation. After Nikolai nodded, Danil dropped his head