Chapter 152

Vladimir:

“What the fuck was she doing in your room?” Konstantin said, entering the office that he has given me to work in.

Though I didn’t have much work to do just yet, and I had no intention of thinking about checking the Ivanov’s work. I wasn’t dumb, I knew that the man would have everything that I was working on wired and looked on, and just hearing the word Ivanov was going to spike a trigger that I didn’t need.

The fact that Elena was beginning to trust me was something that I was more than a little grateful for, but I knew not to risk my chances.

“Hello to you too, Konstantin.” I said, getting up from my chair. I had already heard him entering the Estate, and I knew that he got all the surveillance that he needed to know that she was in my room. This way, at least, they would be off Elena’s head. “I believe that there is a more subtle way to enter my office, do you not agree?”

“Do not play games with me, Vladimir,” he said, stopping me. “What was Yigrette doing in your room?”

“She entered my room, and I allowed her in. The woman has been roaming under my heel throughout half the period that you were gone and not once did I complain. Inviting her in my room was the least that I could do to a maid like herself, or must I say a spy.” I said, my eyes hardening at the man who seemed to be taken aback by my words. I knew that it was the last thing that he expected to hear from me. The idea of me knowing that he had someone giving him the information of what I was doing meant that he didn’t trust me, and though I didn’t blame him, I knew to show him that I didn’t like it. “Did you think that I didn’t know?”

“I wasn’t going to leave my Estate unguarded…”

“I am your fucking nephew, and your supposed heir. If you are not going to trust me then why the fucking hell did you accept having me over at your place?” I asked, stopping the man. “Why did you accept having me as an heir?”

“You are not to blame me considering the fact that your boss or must I call him Alpha…”

“Killian shot me,” I said, stopping the man. “He chose a woman’s word over his best friend, and I think that it is enough for me to take a step back and want my revenge on both him and her. 

“You tried to kiss his woman, I doubt that it was something that he, Killian Ivanov, was going to ignore. You know for fact that she had her case and situation and yet, that put no stop in you. What makes me think that you are not going to stab me in the back when it comes to bigger situations. Mind you, I do not understand what he sees in her but the body that she has, but if he chose her, then I doubt that you couldn’t find another woman that caught your attention.” He said, glaring at me. 

“Coming from the one man that knows no remorse on what belongs to…”

“You are not to compare yourself to me as you do not have the power to do so. While I understand that shooting you is something that he shouldn’t have done, especially not for a foolish reason, you shouldn’t have expected him to drop the subject simply because it was YOU who did it.” He said, stopping me. “As for Yigrette giving me information about you; I doubt that you telling her that she was a failure was any of my interest. As you may know, she wasn’t assigned against you to begin with. But I had to keep my eyes and ears somewhere, and it seems to me that even she managed to fail me as she found herself being drunk.”

“She tried to kiss me,” I said, and he frowned. Now, if the man had been annoyed or angry, he was furious.

“It is impossible,” he said, shaking his head at me.

“Why? The woman came and drank inside my room. The two of us spoke, and when she aimed to straddle my lap, I dismissed her. The last thing that I would have wanted was to fuck a woman that I didn’t like, and yet she didn’t seem to be convinced.” I said, looking the man dead in the eye. “She had her ways and I chose mine, but you know that I do not take a woman that I don’t find appealing to me. And as you may know, I already called her a failure, I doubt that I would be bothering to lay a finger on her.”

“Yigrette knows better than to spread her legs…”

“Yigrette has fucked three men within the week that you were gone. She has a lover too, and he knows, very well, that she’s been going around others to get what she wanted.” I said, laying down the facts that I came to learn from the maids. The woman didn’t know that she was digging her own grave as she messed with me, and judging by the man’s anger, I could tell that she was a redline that wasn’t supposed to be crossed by the men. And that only made me hit two birds with one stone. The woman died, but the men, I knew that they would be paid by their boss himself. “She reeked of sex when she entered my room and was already half drunk anyway. I offered a drink, choosing to be polite as I was already drinking, and when she finished hers, she proceeded to drink mine.”

“You are lying,” he said, and I chuckled, shaking my head at him. His eyes studied my expression, and I could tell that he was trying to read whether or not I would flinch or break. But one thing that he didn’t know about me was the fact that I was trained to be who I was. “Yigrette is not the type…”

“I am sure that you know that she is.” I said, stopping him. “And whether or not you keep denying it confuses me. The woman is nothing but a maid, maybe a spy that you trained, but I doubt that she was ever honorable with what she did, and spreading her legs for different men shouldn’t be of your concern…”

He punched me in the face, taking me off guard as he stopped me. My eyes widened in surprise and the low growl that rumbled from my chest took the man off guard, but I could tell that despite his fear; he held his ground. I glared at him as I knew that my eyes were already a deep shade of golden as my wolf made himself known. The man’s heart raced against his chest, and he clenched and unclenched his fists as he tried calming himself down.

However, it was his next words that made me frown as they were the last thing that I expected to hear before he took a step back as he walked out of the office, leaving me alone with my thoughts.

“When it is my daughter that you are referring to, then it fucking concerns me.” He said, keeping his eyes on mine. “I will show myself out of the room…” 

His what…?