7. Anastasia
ANASTASIA
Back inside Moscow, Papa has been locked away with the other Elite members. Even Dimitri and Lev can’t get answers.
Days pass, and Papa wanders around on edge but staunchly avoids me.
Bratva business is all he says one day, which means do not ask or else.
Whatever happened in Poland, I didn’t have to lose another piece of my soul to the likes of Jakob Nowak, so there’s some positivity. And the strange guy who helped me has lingered in my mind for weeks.
He saved me. He could have captured me or used the other two to do it. Or stepped aside while they did the work. Instead, he instructed me to hit him, equipped me with a weapon, and urged me to run.
If only I got his name…
All I know for certain is that I’ll never see him again.
…Until I do. In the most unlikely of ways, at the most unlikely of times, in a future I never believed possible.