She was the investor.
“It was. After your father terminated business with them, they lost the chance to do business with the Syndicate. They came to me for help andI backed them, seeing the opportunity to use them to achieve my own goals. I steered them in the direction of Markov Tech.It wasn’t that hard to entice a man like Jude Kuzmin who was already into weapons trafficking and the black market.The prospect of owning a company like that could make you a god.And I got my revenge. Revenge was sweet to watch Juliana Markov and her family lose everything after that. She lost the man she should never have been with, those long legs she used to spread for him, her precious son when he was kidnapped.”
Jesus Christ she knows Eric’s alive.
“Then the daughter who served as a welcoming replacement for what Jude lost,” she adds.
“What did Jude lose?”
A flicker of fear flashes in her eyes and I get the feeling we're about to get to the parts of the past that would make me want to kill her.
“Your wife, Gabriella," she answers.
"What the fuck do you mean?" I glare at her.
"She was supposed to be his. She was supposed to marry him, but when your father severed the business relationship with Jude and Nikoli, her father was forbidden to associate with the Kuzmins. She was in love with you, but Jude was in love with her and bitter for the loss of opportunity, financial and otherwise. ”
I can’t believe what I’m hearing. Now the fucking pictures on his computer make sense.
"I gave Jude the foundation to attract a bigger shark than the Syndicate, and he did exactly that when he attracted Igor Evanovich, a leader in the Order.”
My suspicions were right.
“You know about the Order?” It did occur to me that she might know but I wasn't sure.
“I do.”
“So you know they were responsible for killing Phillipe and our fathers?"
"I know, but at that time things were way out of my hands and that was a different faction of them. A different leader I didn't know. I'm sure though Jude was aware of the plot and never told me. At the time he would have been working with the Order for years.My father had friends in high places.Friends like Igor. On my word he took Jude and his father into his fold and made them their millions when he realized what the type of weapons Markov Tech could make him.When Elmiere lost his contract with the Syndicate, I wiped the floor with him and he nearly went bust.I set it all up so that he would accept Jude with open arms.Jude simply stepped in with all the money to save the company.However, he and his father earned their stripes of leadership from Igor when he found out who lost him millions on his precious shipment of drugs to the feds.”
I reach for my gun before she even finishes the sentence, pushing to my feet as I aim my gun at her.
She’s talking about me.She knows what I did.
Her.
Dominic stands too, his eyes focused on her.
She doesn’t look at shit scared as she should.If anything she’s too calm.
And now she’s smiling.
I glance around the room to make sure we’re still alone.I expect someone to jump out any moment but they don’t come.
“What the fuck do you know about me?” I balk.I ball my hands so tight my blood thickens.
“Enough Aiden, so if you kill me now you won't know the rest of the story. And you gave me your word remember?”
This evil bitch really knows how to play the game. She knows I fucking want the rest of the story. But I think I have some of it figured out.
“Tell me the rest of the fucking story then Persephone."
"Do I still have your word?"
"Yes."
"Then put the gun away Pakhan."