FALLEN

Chapter Thirty Five

Kim's P.O.V

Taking a calming breath I walk into Frank's bakery.

"Hi." I greet and she turns around, immediately getting angry.

"I don't want to speak to you." She spits out.

"I know A but please, I finally found out the truth, I don't have anyone I trust to talk about it with and, and I just don't know."

"Kim." I feel her arms wrap around me and I just cry holding onto her as tight as I can, I missed this, I missed her.

"I'm so sorry A, I should have never thought you would intentionally hurt me, I was so stupid and you were right. My father is nothing but a fake!"

"Kim don't say that, his love for you isn't fake." Even after finding out about my father she still sticks up for him. After ordering our usual we sit down at our table and talk.

"I'm sorry A, I really am."

"I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have said all those things I said and I should have definitely never slapped you." We smile at each other and then laugh.

"So did you find out anything else about Cole and my father?"

"No we didn't, right now we're stuck." And then I remember the flashback I had last night.

"I remembered something."

"You did? What?"

"It was an old memory, about my father and a man I think was his old business associate." She gets up, paying for the food. "Where are you going?"

"Come on." She says pulling on my hand and leading me to her car. "Soyer, take us home please."

"Yes ma'am."

"Soyer?" I question and she pushes it aside.

"It's a long story, basically Cy got them as my security."

"He's smart." She rolls her eyes and I giggle. She never did like being told what to do.

"Benson is Cy home?"

"Yes Miss he is, he is in the gym."

"Hey angel, Kim."

"Kensington."

"Cy, Kim says she had a flashback, of her father speaking to another man who she believes is an old business associate."

"I know it's not much but-"

"It's something." He interrupts. "Can you explain it to us?" I nod and he takes out his phone, making a call. "Let me just get Mikey on the phone."

"Boss?"

"Listen carefully."

"There used to be this man who would come by the house frequently, I called him uncle Dimmy but his actual name is Dmitriy and I briefly remembered something, my father was having a meeting with him in his office telling him how he couldn't understand why he didn't just use his family's name. He responded by saying 'без галстуков без потерь." Cy looks puzzled. "What? What is it? Do you know what that means?"

"It's Russian, it means 'no ties no casualties.' Now if he said it like that it means that the man your father was talking to is Russian. Kim did he say anything else?"

"Uhm no but my father said something in the lines of 'this man distancing himself from a man named Maximum makes it easier for him to do business' but that's about it. That's all I remember."

"Maximum? Mikey, dig up Cole's file, see if you can find a Maximum is his family or anyone he did business with." We can hear Mikey typing.

"Boss, I don't think you're gonna like this."

"What is it?"

"There is no Maximum related to Cole because Cole is Maximum. He changed his name when he came to America and I found something else, I'm sending it to you right now." Aurora rushes out coming back with a laptop. Cy checks his emails and a picture pops up. Of Cole, uncle Dimmy and a couple of other people.

"That's uncle Dimmy." I point him out.

"That's Cole." Cy points out. "And that's Mr and Mrs Cole. These must be their other siblings."

"Wait, are Dymitriy and Mr Cole brothers?" A asks shocked.

"If that's true that means Cole is related to the leader of the Russian mafia." Mikey lays it out and everything just clicks.

"That would explain how no one knows who Cole's supplier is and why he always avoids getting caught by the police. I mean he's basically nonexistent in the drug world. He has no ties in New York, they're all in Russia!"

"It would also explain why he wants you dead." Dead?! Wait that fire was meant for Aurora? To kill her ?

"Because I'm the only one who actually dug up sufficient dirt on him that could be turned into evidence."

"Exactly and now what's worse is that he's told his brother about you, which means he's coming for you as well."

"This is bad." I whisper and everyone looks at me with a 'shit just got real' look. "So what are we going to do?"

"We aren't going to do anything, Mikey and I are getting on the next flight to Russia."

"Wait, now hold on, you have no right to say that." Aurora yells but I can tell that Cy's already made up his mind.

"Aurora-"

"Cy no."

"Enough! You're not going and that's final. Now you can get worked up all you want but I am not risking your life over anything."

"Oh but you can risk yours?!"

"Yes!" He roars, storming out.

"This is ridiculous! Can you believe him?" I don't say anything except look at her sympathetically. I've know Aurora for a long time and I can understand why she'd want to dive headfirst into a gun fight but I can also understand where Cy is coming from. I too don't want her to go but that doesn't mean that she's going to listen.

"Do you want me to stay over? Keep you company." I offer.

"Thank you." We head upstairs. With Cy pacing up and down I try to steady Aurora's nerves.

"You're going to go, aren't you?" I look at her.

"I don't know yet but I want to."

"Don't."

"Kim-"

"I'm serious." I plead, holding her and making her look at me. "It's one thing to have your father train you as if you're one of his soldiers but it's another thing to go to war with the Russian mafia! A I don't think I can handle it if something were to happen to you. Please don't go."

"Okay." She says hugging me.
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