The Score
The Russian Guns, Book Three
by Bethany-Kris
Genre: Contemporary, Erotic, Suspense, Organized Crime
Length: Full length, 90k+
In the mess of love and life, nothing and no one is left untouched.
After everything the Russian mob boss Anton Avdonin has done to keep his family safe from the dangers of the world surrounding them, he never thought it would come down to this. The officials are knocking, the charges are piling, his wife is hurting, and they’re facing a fate he never thought to consider. He didn’t just make one mistake … no, he made many. It’s time to answer for them all.
Viviana “Vine” Avdonin is stuck watching the life she adores crumble around her. Bad decisions have led to terrible consequences in more ways than one. She doesn’t have time to recover from one devastating tragedy that leaves her shattered before the next one is crushing down, too. Saving her husband from a life sentence might be the easiest thing she has to do when her own misdeeds are staring her in the face.
Together, Anton and Viviana have survived more than once, but this path will be by far, the hardest they’ve ever walked. Sometimes they have to walk it alone … because forgiveness isn’t always black and white and love can be blurred by pain. With the blissful ignorance gone and the blinders removed, how much of themselves will they have to sacrifice to come out on top one last time?
When everyone has a score to settle, it’s hard to notice the person causing the most heartache is the one staring back in the mirror.
After everything the Russian mob boss Anton Avdonin has done to keep his family safe from the dangers of the world surrounding them, he never thought it would come down to this. The officials are knocking, the charges are piling, his wife is hurting, and they’re facing a fate he never thought to consider. He didn’t just make one mistake … no, he made many. It’s time to answer for them all.
Viviana “Vine” Avdonin is stuck watching the life she adores crumble around her. Bad decisions have led to terrible consequences in more ways than one. She doesn’t have time to recover from one devastating tragedy that leaves her shattered before the next one is crushing down, too. Saving her husband from a life sentence might be the easiest thing she has to do when her own misdeeds are staring her in the face.
Together, Anton and Viviana have survived more than once, but this path will be by far, the hardest they’ve ever walked. Sometimes they have to walk it alone … because forgiveness isn’t always black and white and love can be blurred by pain. With the blissful ignorance gone and the blinders removed, how much of themselves will they have to sacrifice to come out on top one last time?
When everyone has a score to settle, it’s hard to notice the person causing the most heartache is the one staring back in the mirror.
*Please Note: The Score is not a standalone title. The first books in the Russian Guns series (The Arrangement, followed by The Life) should be read first*
Final installment in The Russian Guns
Sequel to The Life
Final installment in The Russian Guns
Sequel to The Life
Published: October 27th, 2014
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Anton flinched, disgust filling him to the brim. This
whole situation was horrible, and he felt dirty with ten grimy fingers pointing
straight at his guilty chest.
“Well, aside from firing her, there’s not much I can—”
Anton didn’t get to finish his sentence. A loud bang
and shouted orders rang out in the downstairs of the club. The tinkling sounds
of canisters popping along the empty floor echoed up to their spot. There was
no denying what was happening downstairs.
“Fuck,” Ivan muttered.
Instantly, Anton was off his office chair, ignoring
the gun he knew was in the desk, and the information of a shipment, never mind
the laptop he should have tried to somehow destroy. No, instead, the only thing
he could think of was the little boy on the floor with wide blue eyes and
terrified, reaching for his father.
“Papa?” Demyan cried.
“Shhh, little man,” Anton whispered.
In his arms, he held his son tighter and turned his
back to the door of the office. It seemed like only milliseconds, but his mind
was running a million miles a minute. Anton couldn’t begin to understand why
the officials would be raiding his club. His guys certainly hadn’t been given
any indication and they’d all been pretty quiet.
Demyan’s shaking increased as the shouts down below
became louder. “It’s okay, Demyan, it’s okay. Papa’s here.”
The sounds of a dozen or more pairs of boots pounding
up the metal staircase ratcheted up Anton’s nerves to a breaking point.
“Anton …” Ivan started to say. “Anton, give me your
son!”
The hardest thing Anton ever had to do, next to
walking out of his house that morning knowing his wife’s heart was breaking,
was hand his trembling, scared, and crying son off to another man. It was safer
for Demyan, though.
No doubt, they weren’t there for Ivan.
Anton watched Ivan curl a fighting Demyan into his
chest as he got to his knees on the floor and automatically put his hands
behind his head. The less threatening he seemed at their entrance, the less
likely they were to cause him harm, never mind his son seeing it.
“Demyan, it’s okay,” Anton repeated when the first
kick to the door landed with a solid thump. The second and third only followed
louder, harder. “Hide his face, Ivan!”
When the door finally broke, it wasn’t a second before
Anton found himself face down on the floor, his son’s cries overtaking all
other sounds. Cuffs tightened around his wrists to an almost painful point, but
Anton refused to show it. A boot landed hard between his shoulder blades,
keeping him pinned to the floor even though he wasn’t fighting.
“Papa!”
“Anton Daniil Avdonin, you’re under arrest for the
murder of Sonny Carducci, Tatiana Belov, Sergei Belov …”
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Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of
much, and mother of two young sons, two cats, and two dogs. Between barking
dogs, snuggling cats, playing children, and a spouse calling over his shoulder,
she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.
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