The Crippled Mafia King’S Forced Bride
EP 12
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Money, jewelry, anything you want
Tempting. It’s not a thing that I want from him, though
Natalia Grey/FL
I want an answer to a question
Natalia Grey/FL
Is that an option as well?
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
*suprised*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Depends on the question
Natalia Grey/FL
In that case, I’ll have to decline, Mr. Ivanov
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
*Looks at her*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
* bursts out laughing*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
You drive a hard bargain, Miss Grey
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
*Leans his head and whispers in her ear*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Ask
I find it hard to believe that he accepted. Ivanov doesn’t seem like a man who would agree to anyone’s terms.
He must really want that painting.
I lift my head and look into his calculating dark eyes, while several possibilities run through my head.
Natalia Grey/FL
Why do you need a temporary wife, Rodion?
Natalia Grey/FL
You’re handsome, rich, powerful. I’m sure there are dozens of women who’d be happy to marry you.
Natalia Grey/FL
Why waste three-million dollars when you could get a wife for free?
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Because I don’t want a permanent one, and the current business situation requires me to have a wife for the next six months.
Natalia Grey/FL
Why six months?*frown*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Well, that’s a second question*smiles*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
And you bargained for only one.
He had answered without revealing anything at all. I should have expected it and phrased my question differently, but there’s no going back now.
Natalia Grey/FL
So, what do you want me to paint for you? A landscape? Your dog? Apples, cheese, and dead flowers on a table?*cold*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Nope. I had something else in mind
Again, that devious calculating half-smile
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
I want your self-portrait
Natalia Grey/FL
A self-portrait?*raise her eyebrows*
What the hell is he going to do with my self-portrait? Why not a landscape?
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Yes. Is that a problem?
Natalia Grey/FL
No. Any special requests? Pose? Background?
He leans forward until his face is looming right in front of mine, takes my chin with two fingers, and tilts my head up a little.
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Just one *focuses his gaze on her lips*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
I want you to be naked
Natalia Grey/FL
*eye widened*
I’m so stunned that I can’t find a meaningful response
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
It looks like we’ve become a main attraction in the room *murmurs, still focused on her lips*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Are you ready, Natalia?
Dear God, he smells amazing. Trying to get back down to earth, I start chanting a new mantra in my head: He’s a criminal. He’s a criminal.
Natalia Grey/FL
Ready? For . . . what?
* mumble*
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
To show me how good an actress you really are
*smiles and crashes his lips to her*
One second, I was a thinking rational being. In the next, every single logical thought vanished, only to be replaced with one maddening need—more. More of his lips, more of his smell, more of everything.
Natalia Grey/FL
*closed eyes and lost in kiss*
Sound of a glass shattering
Natalia Grey/FL
*opens eyes*
Rodion’s face is looming just an inch from mine, his hand on the back of my neck. My fingers are in his hair, clutching the silky black strands.
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
That was an outstanding performance*low voice*
I remove my hands from Rodion’s hair and look down where my wine glass lays shattered in pieces. Red liquid mares the pristine white marble floor, and some of it ended up splashed all over my right foot and shoe.
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
Swap your legs, Miss Grey. Right one up
I uncross my legs, then cross them again so my right one is crossed over the left.
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
*bends, wraps his hand around her right ankle, undoes the clasp, and slips the strap from her heel. *
He removes the shoe, and I stare at his hands as he wipes the wine from my foot with a white napkin he took from the table.
When he’s done, he puts my heel back on and closes the clasp.
Rodion Ivanov/Pakhan/ML
*Holding her ankle, he slowly lowers her leg back down*
Natalia Grey/FL
*speechless*
Comments
👑Puchi👑
author u should change ML n FL's pics ml looks road side Romeo 🤔 rest it's up to u ☺️
2025-01-17
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Ari
He literally finishes his conversation with not more than 2 sentences with her 😮💨
2025-01-19
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SnowLily❄️
mama I am in love with a criminal~
2025-01-17
1