Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 69352 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 347(@200wpm)___ 277(@250wpm)___ 231(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 69352 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 347(@200wpm)___ 277(@250wpm)___ 231(@300wpm)
If anyone on Earth should know that, it’s Milena Semyonov.
She’s suffered blow after blow, and the hits just keep on coming.
Just when she’s sworn off being happy, that maybe being numb is the better way to navigate life, she meets him.
Cutter Carson Clayborne.
The man that finally shows her how a real man is supposed to treat her.
Just when she didn’t think life could get any worse, the man that abused her as a young, impressionable teen is back, showing her that life can, in fact, get worse.
When she’s ready to quit, Cutter is there, making sure that she knows that he’ll be there, whether she wants him there or not.
He is her husband, after all. And the unlikely pair have an understanding that they’ll stay married for two years, make a baby, and join two crime syndicates in unholy matrimony.
Cutter has other plans, though. He only agrees to the original plan to make her his.
He won’t ever give her up. What’s his stays his. And there’s not a man on the earth that’ll ever touch Milena again. Not with Cutter alive and able to take out anyone that tries
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Semyonov Bratva, Book 3
MILENA + CUTTER
Life isn’t fair.
If anyone on Earth should know that, it’s Milena Semyonov.
She’s suffered blow after blow, and the hits just keep on coming.
Just when she’s sworn off being happy, that maybe being numb is the better way to navigate life, she meets him.
Cutter Carson Clayborne.
The man that finally shows her how a real man is supposed to treat her.
Just when she didn’t think life could get any worse, the man that abused her as a young, impressionable teen is back, showing her that life can, in fact, get worse.
When she’s ready to quit, Cutter is there, making sure that she knows that he’ll be there, whether she wants him there or not.
He is her husband, after all. And the unlikely pair have an understanding that they’ll stay married for two years, make a baby, and join two crime syndicates in unholy matrimony.
Cutter has other plans, though. He only agrees to the original plan to make her his.
He won’t ever give her up. What’s his stays his. And there’s not a man on the earth that’ll ever touch Milena again. Not with Cutter alive and able to take out anyone that tries.
I do more gagging than nagging if you love me right.
—Milena’s secret thoughts
MILENA
“I gotta go, Asher,” I said with a sigh. “Hazel is here to run with me.”
Asher rolled his eyes. “Of course she is. You go run instead of talking this out like an adult would.”
I gritted my teeth. “Asher, now is not the time. You knew that I was going running way before you started this discussion with me.”
“I did, but I didn’t think that you would refuse to talk to me about it. Why do you act like this?” he seethed.
“I promise that we’ll talk about it when I get back,” I repeated.
“Well, that’s not going to work for me, because I’m leaving on a business trip,” he grumbled. “I leave in an hour.”
“What?” I asked. “When did this happen?”
“While you were in the shower ignoring me. They asked last week if I wanted to go, I said no, because it was your birthday this weekend. Then you pulled this shit, and I told them I’d go.”
That just made me angry.
I narrowed my eyes at him and counted to ten in my head.
When I was calm enough to reply, I said, “Well, I hope you have a safe trip.”
He snorted and turned his back on me.
I shuffled to the door, wondering if I should just call it quits now.
It was obvious that this wasn’t working with Asher.
He was too…much.
Just too much.
There were no other words for what he was.
I opened the door to the apartment and was unsurprised to find Hazel already standing there.
“Hey…”
“What the fuck was that?” she grumbled.
I waited until the door of Asher’s apartment was closed before I gave her a “wait” face.
She did, not saying a word until we were downstairs and stretching outside of the building.
“Well? What was that?” she repeated, frustrated now.
I sighed. “That was Asher being a complete dick.”
Had she not been hanging out with her new office friends over the last month, she might’ve known that Asher and I had been having a few issues.
Those issues were now big issues that were dominating our relationship.
“Asher wants to go out and enjoy more of life than I’m capable of giving him,” I vented. “He wants to hang out with his friends, and he wants me to go with him because he feels guilty when I stay home. Then he says he feels obligated to hang out with me instead of participating. When I do go, he leaves me, and I only see him from across the room of wherever we happen to be. And to be quite honest, I’m not too fond of his friends, and he thinks I have an unhealthy attachment to my family.”
Hazel snorted. “You kind of do, but it’s understandable.”
I stopped stretching and looked at her. “What do you mean by that?”
“I just mean that you are with them all the time, and you never spend time with him unless it’s after you’ve seen to their needs.” She shrugged, like she hadn’t just stabbed me in the heart.
“You know that I love my family,” I pointed out. “I don’t think it’s a crime to want to be around them.”
“No, not a crime,” she agreed. “But you could go hang out with Asher before you check in with your family. You could stay with Asher without completely dropping him if someone from your family calls and asks you for something.”
I snorted. “The only time I ‘drop’ Asher is if someone calls for emergency babysitter help,” I said. “And Auden and Maven are really the only ones that call me to help, and that’s only because they know that Shasha and Brecken, as well as Nastya and Haze, are busy with their own kids.”