Sergei's Stubborn Captive (The Captive Series Book 3) by C.M. Steele Page B

wanting to be with him anymore, she did everything she could to avoid him intimately, but just in case she protected herself. My sister was sneaking birth control, under my name, so she never got pregnant.” Lana paused as the tears started falling.
    “What is it?” Sergei asked as he rubbed her back.
    “They were on a trip to Colorado for skiing, but Ana was scared of heights so I knew it was his idea completely. It was then that he found out about the birth control and beat her terribly. It was the last time I heard from her. He came back from the trip without her and claimed she ran away from him.”
    “Do you think she actually could have run?”
    Lana had thought about that many times, but she knew that Ana would have gotten in touch with her. “She would have contacted me. No. I heard rumors from some of his lower levels that she tried to leave, but no one leaves him. They said he’d left her at the bottom of a lake, but we’ve never been able to find the body.”
    “Well we can go to Colorado anytime. When’s the last time you went looking for her there?”
    “It was about three months after her disappearance, and Santini told me that if I didn’t back off, I would end up like her.” Lana broke down and started to cry.
    A growl rumbled from Sergei’s chest before he said, “Baby, I wish he was here. I would put a bullet in him for even talking to you like that.”
    Tears streaming down her face, she asked the question he’d continually answered, but that she didn’t believe. “You killed him didn’t you?”
    “I told you I didn’t.”
    “But one of the other guys did,” Lana said knowingly.
    “He deserved it. You don’t know what Nikolai suffered through in prison. He came out a changed man. His anger was so strong that he wanted to murder whoever sent him there. Santini teamed up with a family friend of Nikolai’s to blame the Rossis. Nikolai wanted them all to pay, but something didn’t seem right to him from the start. When he’d seen a picture of Bianca, his anger faded and reality hit him that the Rossis had no reason to rat him out. That it was all truly suspect. We worked with one of Luciano’s own to raid the home to kill the family. Can you believe that they let us go into the Rossi house with guns ready to execute the entire family, including the baby? We played like we were, but we had a different plan.”
    “The baby? That’s so terrible!” Lana cried out.
    “Yes, little Luc wasn’t to be excluded in their fate. If that wasn’t fucked up enough, what he did before was awful. Working with Enzo for control of the area, he was an instrumental part of what Amber told you. Luciano and Amber almost got divorced because of it.”
    “No! I thought he loved her.” All the fears Lana had about these men came to the forefront.
    “He worships her. He didn’t want to split up, but he wanted her safe and thought as his wife she constantly had a target on her back. It was true, but she’s the one who asked for the divorce. Listen, this is not for me to tell you. Let Amber tell you if she chooses. All I know is that it was a rough time for all of us then. Santini was such a fucked up piece of shit.”
    “I could see why you were so angry with me for asking about Santini before.”
    “Ha…yeah. I was jealous about a week after you started your investigation.” Sergei chuckled as he thought about how much the guys had ragged on him wanting her.
    “Really?” Lana asked, thinking that was very irrational.
    “Yes. The guys teased me about it several times. I think that was one of my reasons for taking you. I wanted to make you want me and not Santini. I figured if you were so worried about him and he was a total piece of shit that I wasn’t completely out of the game.”
    “Truthfully, I wanted you too. I could have followed the girls, but once I saw you I wanted to be around you. I kept harassing you just to hear you tell me how pretty I was. It was a pathetic thing to do, and I