single girl. The fact she was Alexei’s daughter was just the icing on that nauseating cake. She had to be a professional at this innocent act; at drawing men in. Just like her mother was before Alexei showed up to put a bullet between their eyes. Mila fisted the ropes, eyes closed, a pink flush warming her cheeks. I’d barely touched her, and she was close to coming. Only an idiot would believe they were the first to get her off. She was a hair trigger, and there wasn’t a chance she’d remained celibate considering how she threw herself at me. I stilled my hand and asked, “How many men have made you come?” She inhaled deeply, in relief or frustration. I wasn’t sure she even knew which, but it was clear she had no desire to respond. “Answer me,” I demanded. Silence. She was stubborn, but so was I. I slapped her between the legs. A gasp escaped her before she slayed me with a lethal gaze. “Sorry, was I supposed to keep count?” My teeth clenched. I vowed to make her count every orgasm I gave her until she begged me to stop. Before I could give in to the desire to start right then and there, I pulled my hand away and stood. “Bad pets don’t get rewarded.” Fury cooled all of the desire in her gaze. “You’ll get what’s coming to you, D’yavol. And when you do, Pll smile when they cover you with dirt.” Fuck. That was kind of hot. And annoying. I gripped her face. “If I go down, I’ll take you with me. Your Mikhailov blood will keep me cool in hell.” An uncertain flicker passed through her eyes, and then she looked at the ceiling, dismissing me in an arrogant way no one else would dare. I released her roughly, and with a hot rush of frustration, I walked out of the room to find Yulia scrubbing up blood with an obsessive mentality. The woman had knocked on my front door seven years ago, unperturbed by the guards and guns, and announced, “I would like job.” I recognized her from two different occasions. In my preteens, she fed me and my brother a hot meal and gave us a place to sleep for the night when she found us camping out in her car during