He just dropped billions of dollars in my lap without so much as a fucking letter!”
“If you think I’m lying about your sister and girlfriend,” she said, and I could detect a hint of heat in her frigid tone. My head pounded in sync with my heart, which was doing double-time as I started putting together the shreds of gauzy memory slowly swimming to the surface of consciousness. Mom xxx Then we’ll kill the other one.”
Natashya screamed something unintelligible around her gag and then looked at me. “Where am I?” I called out pathetically. I remembered his body falling like a limp rag doll in front of me, missing the top half of his head. Her touch suggested intimacy and warmth, but her voice still held a certain coldness, making the situation even more confusing.




















