“You better have a good fucking reason for allowing her back there,” I growled in Russian. Blood poured from his nose. “She’s poisonous. Just like the stories of her mother.” “Not a good reason.” I grabbed my gun from my waistband and pressed the barrel to his head. He tensed. “You have been playing with her for too long. We can all see she’s digging her Mikhailov claws into you.” Yeah, maybe I had let this go on for too long, but J made the goddamn decisions around here. “We? Who else had a hand in her coming here tonight?” He hesitated, and my finger tightened on the trigger. “Vasily,” he blurted. “He only scared her.” Irritation crawled up my back. I was losing patience with my men when it came to this girl. But what infuriated me the most was that nobody had the right to scare her except me. “Do you think you could do my job better than me?” I asked. He’d have to kill me to do that, and we both knew that was a fight he’d never win. His jaw clenched. “Pasha was my brother.” The unfortunate truth was, I forgot the kid’s name when I had my fingers deep inside Mila. Maybe she was poisonous. Pd had my fair share of beautiful women and then some, but this one ... It was like her body was designed just for me. Unfortunately, beneath that all-American cheerleader exterior lay a Woodstock advertisement. I had nothing against free love, but it would be an understatement to say I wasn’t someone who threw around peace signs. A cab driver/drug runner of mine recognized Mila minutes after she stepped out of the airport. Since then, I’d learned a number of her ridiculous achievements: valedictorian, cheer captain, homeless shelter volunteer. She even organized a fundraiser to save humpback whales when she was fifteen. If that didn’t paint a clear picture, she was voted “Most Likely to Win a Nobel Prize” at her prestigious high school. God was laughing at me when he delivered my revenge straight to my hands wrapped in a perfect, environmentally friendly package. Although, he must not have accounted for Mila to practically beg me to take advantage of her.