Chapter 22: Chapter 22

Elijah*

"What is it with you and kidnapping her?" He glares at me after closing the door to the room I kept her locked in.

"I didn't kidnap her. I only took what's mine. She is mine." Fact. Seeing that I have no repentance of my act he shifts to the corner eyeing me.

When I planned on sending her to Russia it was because of all these secrets unfolding. I didn't want her to know before I get to the bottom of it all. I wanted to have her look at me

the way she does and not as her family's murderer. But I failed in doing so as Leandro got to her before I came out open. Now on this island she will have no option but to hear me out.

No Leandro, a Glock with one bullet loaded in. Risky? Yes, I will take my chances.

When she gets to wake up I may finally die a man with a peaceful soul with that bullet or I may not; either way she will listen to me.

"You have a very twisted way of taking what's yours. How did you get her out of the mansion without her men killing you?"

"You gave me the idea." Watching the water splash on huge boulders. This is the life she deserves, a house on the beach with me waking up to her beautiful face every morning and at night; I turn her desires into reality with the tranquility surrounding us. Instead we either fight each other and when not happening, we have others doing so against us.

Pointing his index at me, he denies. "I only gave you the idea not for you to carry it out. How do you think she will react when she wakes up?"

"Probably put another bullet in me." Grinning, I look at him.

He frown. "That is not funny Vlad." A bad joke he did take to heart wiping the smile off my face. "You see when a woman makes a threat, it's like a damn warning but when she shoots at you it is a death sentence. And do you know what your little Latina has been up to since she shot you. She has gone loco, rogue, crazed. Maybe us." He confirms what my men told me when I sent them to tag her since we came to Italy. And I wonder...

Can someone go crazed in a matter of days or probably her pregnancy hormones took a toll on her to act as such.

"That is not her." Shaking my head not wanting to believe I caused the new changes in her. That deep down inside there my princess is still alive.

"You believe so?"

Seeing Alexei get down with me from the car, I stop him before he moves further. "Don't. I want to go alone." Finality lace my firm voice. I look away walking to the place where I'm either going to be killed or I will come back with my solution.

"To the death of my eyes, Vladimir Ivanov." Pulling his gun out. "Tell me why I shouldn't finish what she started after I found out about your conspiracy with Leandro. You killed my family and still have the guts to walk up to me."

"Drop your gun Lucien. I need to talk to you." Pulling a chair out taking my seat, his men waiting for his order to either fire away or leave us be either way Lucien is the key to reaching her. I didn't come for a war, I just want her back so whatever happens I'm not leaving without the answer. Crossing a leg over the other getting comfortable I wait for his reaction.

He chuckles going back to his food. "Coming back from the dead again but still the same arrogant Russian." A devilish grin came across my face.

"What can I say? I am a Russian."

Glaring exasperated he drops his gun on the table signaling to his men to give us space. "You know for the fun of it I will listen to you. My men searched for your body by the bank but never found it; you have nine lives or something?"

"When you have something to live for then death is far less to conquer." Meeting his eyes.

"It is Sonia isn't it. You want her."

"I need to make amends first which I why I come to you. You need to hear the truth from me about your parent's death." He becomes attentive, listening as I told him the truth which took place years back. Once done his face is hard as still.

"Leandro...my father trusted him and he did this to him. Betrayed the mafia."

"I need to get to Sonia first, she has to know." Getting sober he nods gulping down his drink placing the cup to his temple. I can only imagine the tables turning in his head, if he feels this way how much Sonia.

"She is broken, hurt and confused. An empty shell of her former self." Looking at me.

"I know which is why I need you to help me get to her. She is good at what she does." Referring to her infamous cyber skills locking Alexie out of her cloud.

"I know so." He chuckles looking in the distance. A sombre reflection crossing his smile.

"Here is what I will do to help because she travels for Spain in the next twenty four hours." Finally. Hearing his plan to help get me into the mansion. If someone told me I will fall in love I would have shoot that person but I did and now I'm fighting to have her back to me. I only hope it is not too late to get back the woman I once knew.

Thanking him I sit up about to leave but his words stops me.

"We may have our differences but you have to help her. I can't lose her again."

"Thank you."

Pointing his knife to me as his fork takes a morsel in his mouth. "No, thank you."

Looking back to the water crashing against the boulders I reply my brother assertive and with all alacrity because I will have her former self back. "I know so."

Papi is back princess.