Chapter Twenty Dragna
Chapter Twenty
Dragna
Alina looks all around us, her breathing hitching and suddenly the ringing is back in my ears, my blood turns to ice and I can’t comprehend what I have just heard. What I know all of us have heard.
“Mia figlia, what are you doing here?” Marco responds while he looks around him for any threats.
Alina glances around all of us looking terrified, like she’s just been caught doing something she absolutely shouldn’t be and now I’m wondering if this was his plan all along.
Get his daughter to seduce Lev to get to us.
“What the fucks going on Marco.” Lev spits towards him getting in his face.
“Lev what the fuck!” Alina shouts, getting in between Marco, her fucking father, and Lev while I pull him back by his shirt collar.
“How the hell do you know each other?” Alina asks frantically.
“What the hell is going on?” She continues.
“Everybody inside. Now.” I say and I march through the front entrance of the club no longer giving a fuck who sees.
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“You fucking bastard!” Alina screams at me while she’s being held back by Lev.
She landed a punch to my jaw unexpectedly when we explained everything to her.
She hasn’t calmed down at all despite our efforts and her father’s.
She’s crying all while screaming, scratching, punching and kicking at Lev.
She’s struggling against his hold so much that I think she is actually about to break free.
“And YOU. You have lied to me my entire fucking life!” She screeches at her father.
“Does mom know? Does she know who you are and what you do? Did she know when you got her pregnant?” She screams at him.
Marco looks like he’s seen a ghost, the first time I have ever seen the man show some form or humanity and the last thing he obviously ever wanted was Alina finding out the truth about him because now, she’s a target.
“She did not. It’s why I left. You and your mother would have been walking targets if I had stayed. I did what I thought was best in keeping you both safe.” He replies looking genuinely solemn.
“Oh fuck off dad. Fuck off all of you!” She kicks Lev’s shins again and he grunts as he loses his grip on her and she untangles herself from his arms. He lunges for her again and this tiny five foot two woman kicks him straight in the gut.
“Stay the fuck away from me Lev. I swear to god I’ll fucking kill you.”
“Calm down Alina.” Her father booms at her.
“Calm down!!! Calm fucking down. I would set this fucking place on fire with you all in it if I knew I could get out on time. Calm down. You’re fucking crazy!” She screams at her dad before she turns towards me and lunges just as Lev manages to grab her again.
“If Willow gets hurt because of you… I don’t care that you’re some big Bratva tough guy, I will skin you alive.
I will pour salt and alcohol over your fleshless body, cut your balls off and shove them down your own fucking throat until you choke to death if anything happens to her.
I WILL kill you.” She says eerily calmly and some of my men actually begin looking around at each other at her threats.
“Fucking hell Alina, we could use your creativity kotyonok.” Lev says trying to joke with her while she struggles in his hold.
“I’m not joking Lev and don’t ‘kitten’ me ever again. We’re done. I never want to see you again. I never want to see you again either.” She points at her father.
“And you, you will end things with Willow otherwise my threats will become your reality.” She points to me and I step closer to her.
I have to give it to her, she doesn’t back down under the gaze that many ruthless men have backed down to, or the fact I’m towering over her.
Lev really does have his work cut out for him with her.
“Willow is safer with me in her life.” I say because like fuck am I about to give away information of her stalker while the Italian scum are here.
“No, she isn’t Dragna. She has a fucking stalk—” Lev puts his hand over her mouth to quiet her because I know he’s thinking the same as me.
Nothing can get out about Willows stalker, it will just make her more of a target.
“Get your hands off my daughter!” Marco shouts and begins making his way over to them. Lev keeps his hand over a struggling Alina’s mouth he shrieks as he drops her.
“You fucking bit me!” He shouts and Alina kicks his shin again from the floor and he hisses through his teeth.
“Everybody calm down!” I shout as I pound my fist against the table.
The room stops. It goes completely silent and even Alina stops on the floor from where she was beginning to stand.
“Lev, Alina. Whatever was going on between you to, if it ends I don’t give a shit, but I will not be leaving Willow alone and unprotected.
You would have to kill me to leave her Alina, and I fucking mean that.
You do not tell her what you know about us.
Everything you have learned tonight is kept between all of us in this room and that’s it.
If word gets out about anything that’s been talked about here tonight, we will know it only came from someone inside this room and they will be dealt with accordingly. ”
I hear Alina scoff at my words and I glare at her.
“Big bad Bratva man dishing out threats. God how did you both hide this so well from us? And you… how did you hide this from me for twenty one years. My entire fucking life?” She says looking right at Marco.
She has tears in her eyes now and I feel bad that she had to find out about this, about all of it.
“I’m Sorry Alina my darling. I will make it up to you, I promise.
” Marco says as he lifts a hand to cup her face.
She slaps his hand away and wasting no time, slaps him across the face so hard his head is thrown to the side.
His men jump from their places and Lev shoves her behind him to Ivan to protect her as Marco holds a hand up to stop them from grabbing Alina.
“You will not touch my daughter.” He says as he looks at her again behind Lev with tears in his own eyes. The bastard does have a heart after all, or at least for his daughter anyway.
“Alina, I know this is a lot to take in, but I need to know you won’t tell Willow about any of this.
If you care about your best friend you will leave her out of this and not utter a single word to her.
We are sorting out the problem ourselves and I will be going nowhere to ensure her safety.
” She looks at me as I speak, then at all the other men around the room before returning to my gaze.
“I want everyone out and I want to talk to you alone.” She demands and I look to my men and nod at them. They all begin exiting the room to take guard outside the door. She looks to her father and shakes her head in disappointment.
“You too. Go. I never want to look at you again.” She says as she walks away from Ivan, straight past Lev and her father.
He watches her walk away before nodding to his men and they all begin to exit the room too.
Lev ensures they are seen out by more of our men before closing the door on them all and making his way to us.
“No, you too Lev. Go. I’m not kidding when I say we’re done. How the fuck can I trust you again?” She says and the tears in her eyes are close to spilling over.
“Ali cat, c’mon. I couldn’t just come out and tell you all of this. You have to understand that.” He steps closer to her and she puts a hand on his chest and shakes her head. He looks down at her and I can see his own eyes going glassy with his tears.
He’s gone for her and I don’t even want to think about the fallout of them being over right now on top of everything else going on.
“Lev, leave us.” I say before he makes the situation worse. He shakes his head and runs his hands over his head in disbelief before striding to the door, opening it and slamming it shut behind him.
“Take a seat.” I tell Alina and offer a hand to one of the lounge chairs.
“Just tell me one thing.” She says as she sits down.
“Anything.” I answer her honestly.
“Is Willows stalker an enemy of yours. Someone who only knows about her because you’re some big underworld leader?”
“No. At least we don’t think so. The day she called me alerting me of the car, it would have been too soon for someone to think she meant anything to me.
It’s completely unrelated.” I say without skipping a beat.
I’m too good at lying, but it’s for both of their protection now that this is what she believe’s until we know who the fuck has replicated Andrei’s car.
“I don’t want you in Willows life. I don’t want you to bring any more danger to her life than what she currently has going on, even if it is unrelated.
You being who you are and Willow being who she is, it doesn’t mix well.
It won’t end well for her, and I’ll be fucking dammed if I let you ruin her Dragna.
Not after she has come so far.” She wipes a tear away angrily as she clenches her jaw.
“Why do you think I left her that night after dinner. I know all of this, but I can’t stay away from her and I sure as hell can’t leave her knowing there’s some asshole stalking her, making her fearful to even leave her own apartment.
Whether you and Lev continue things or not that is between you two, but I will do everything I can to continue looking after Willow.
That offer extends to you as her best friend also.
I will have one of my men take you both too and from work.
I will keep men stationed at the house so it’s not just the cameras you have to rely on and I will make sure we get the fucker stalking her and make him pay the way he deserves. ”
She looks me in my eyes as I speak. Her gaze full of promises of the threats she dished out and I realise then how much she looks like Marco.
“If a single hair on her sweet head is hurt, I don’t care what kind of punishment you’ve given men in the past, nothing will compare to what I will do to you.
” She says deathly serious as she picks her bag up and makes her way to the door.
She walks out and I can hear Lev begging her to listen to him as they disappear down the hall.
I inhale deeply and grab my phone to check the camera feed from Willows apartment, rewinding and watching what I missed because of tonights events.
No sign of anyone and no calls from my men is a good sign, but I need to see her to know for myself she’s safe.
I dial her number and wait for her to pick up as I grab my suit jacket.
“Hey! Everything okay?” I close my eyes and breathe again at the sound of her voice.
“Da, I’m coming over if that’s okay with you?” I ask her and I’m already out the door and pointing at Mikhail to follow me from being stationed outside the lounge door.
“Umm my friend is still here but she’s leaving soon, if you’re not busy with the club I’d love for you to come over.” She says hesitantly.
“I’m on my way moya dusha. I’ll be about thirty minutes.”
“Perfect, I’ll see you soon.” I can almost see the smile I know she has on her face, that I can hear in her voice.
“See you soon Willow.”
She hangs up and Mikhail and I are already on the main floor of the club, making our way to the door.
“Brat, where are you going?” Lev stops me and I notice a mark on his jaw, Alina definitely put a stop to his begging with the same right hook she landed on me.
“To see Willow. Stay here.” He just nods at me, completely defeated and I feel for him, because if Willow told me to stay away from her like how Alina did, I’d fucking kill someone.
“Alina let Ivan take her home. Let me know she’s home safe please when you get there.” He says to me before he stalks off in the other direction and Mikhail and I make our way outside to the car.
When I get in I pull up the camera feed again and watch like a man obsessed for the entire drive to Willows place until I see our own car pull up on the front door feed.