The Bratva’s Bounty (Volkov Bratva #3)

24. Lev

Chapter 24

Lev

" Zhizn moya ..."

Before I could put my concern into words, Nicole shook her head at me with a heavy expression. "Not tonight, Lev, please." There was no energy to her voice, nor was there any to her shuffling feet as she dragged herself to the couch.

Being smart, for once in my life, I kept my mouth shut. She didn't need more shit placed on her right now after our impromptu meeting with my family. So, without a peep, I settled next to her on the couch and took her into my arms. "Do you want to be alone for a while?" I wasn't sure if my presence was helping or not.

To be honest, I wasn't sure of a lot of things when it came to Nicole and me. I wasn't doubting our relationship or anything like that; no, it was more that I wasn't sure what to do as a boyfriend. Even if I fooled around a lot in my younger days and somewhat recent years, I've never had a girlfriend before or engaged myself in any kind of committed relationship.

Long-term relationships have always terrified me. Yes, I was one of those cowards who was afraid of commitment—sue me. But, I also never felt the need to settle, until I came upon Nicole. Something about her drew me in and made me fall head over heels for her.

I thought Nikolai was bullshitting me when he told me a while back that he knew Angel was the one because he could see a life with her. Back then, I argued that a life with anyone could be painted onto a canvas if someone tried hard enough. Nikolai laughed at me and called me na?ve, and I might have punched him in the gut for that. But I regret it now because clearly, he was right, like always.

One glance at Nicole was all I needed to have our whole life play out before me like a damn movie—I didn't even have to try and direct anything. I could see us finally having some peace and balance once her parents were taken care of. From seeing us sitting out in the garden watching our children play and grow to when we'd grow old and gray. Everything flowed smoothly like a lazy river.

Of course, thinking about it all made my muscles twitch with impatience. I wanted to go out and bulldoze everything over regarding her parents so she wouldn't have to worry about any of it. Unfortunately, that plan had to go into the trash because of Igor's involvement.

The damn rat.

Maybe it was too hopeful and stupid of me to think he'd run away and hide out the rest of his days in shame with his father after we busted Lady Qing and shut down her operations and some other major players.

Honestly, the whole thing was a huge headache and a half for all of us.

My train of thought came to a halt when I felt movement in my arms. "Yes, but I don't want you gone. I just need you to hold me for longer and be here for me in silence while I mull over everything." Her soft and tired voice made me frown with pity for her.

"Whatever my empress wants and needs." Placing a kiss on the top of her head, I laid down on the couch with her.

Thoughtful silence was probably needed for both of us because I needed to think of a plan to shove it into Nikolai's face. He may have given me the task of dealing with our skeptics and Igor, but I could see his wary eyes when he shoved it onto my plate out of anger .

I had nothing against my older brother, but sometimes, he took the peaceful route a little too far. I understood his reasons for running our family's bratva the way he does, given how our father used to run things with an iron fist, but sometimes, a firm reminder was needed all around.

At times, I wish Nikolai was more like his younger, unhinged self. I mean, he didn't get labeled the Devil Volk for being a pacifist. Everyone likes to think that I was the violent one, which wasn't a lie, but compared to Nikolai, I paled in comparison. Back in his prime, he really was a bloody demon in the streets and behind a desk. He still was a bloodthirsty asshole, but he kept a better lid on it now. But no matter how hard he tried to hide and deny that side of him, I could clearly see it whenever we went out on the field together.

No matter, Nikolai wasn't my problem—he was Angel's now.

Taking a deep breath, I let myself daze off while staring at the ceiling.

I wasn't too worried about the other people I had to terrify; it was Igor. I only had one shot at him, and I didn't want to fuck it up. If I did, then he'd get away from us for good this time. The solution seemed simple to me: figure out where he stowed himself away and attack him in his sleep. The only problem was that he was a slimy rat, and following him back to his hole proved harder than expected. Also, we had no idea about his forces or if he had any.

Going in blind was never a good idea, and as much as I craved some violence, I wasn't that much of an idiot. Additionally, I had to be cautious because of how closely involved Nicole was. The last thing I wanted was to have her caught in the crossfire or, worse, lose her altogether.

Looking down, I let my eyes wander about her features to distract myself. The thought of… No… I couldn't think about things like that. No point in planting seeds that I had no intention of growing.

Everything is going to be fine.

I repeated it in my mind in so many different ways until I lulled myself into a false sense of calm and security.

"Besides the meeting just now, did you enjoy tonight?" Nicole's voice broke the silence in the room. "Anything in particular you enjoyed or not?"

Forcing a smile onto my lips, I tightened my arms around her before replying. "A lot more food and festivities than I imagined, but it was nice and sweet. Seeing all the paper lanterns was nice, too." That was the part that surprised me the most, if I was being honest. Some of those were so intricate, like the dragons and phoenixes. Then, to hear they were all handmade really made them even more special to my eyes.

Chuckling, I lightly pinched her sides to tickle her. "I don't know how you ate all that food." Seriously, she ate as much as I did, and I ate a lot .

Her hands swatted at mine while her laughing body squirmed in my arms. "What can I say, high metabolism? I gotta get the energy to use my brain from somewhere," she stammered out between her laughter. " ??i ca , stop tickling me! It's not fair!"

Satisfied with getting my dose of laughter from her, I released. "Do you want to head to bed? Or are you going to tinker around a little with your stuff?" I nodded toward the spare room she had turned into her temporary office and workspace.

Nicole's body perked up from the couch, and her head darted between me and the room for a good minute. I don't know what ran through her mind, but whatever she decided on couldn't have been good with how she looked down at me with a rather devious smile and playful eyes. Leaning down, she slinked her way up my chest, hovering her snake-like face inches from mine. "You up for some fun tonight?"

My nervousness bubbled up and clogged my throat, forcing me to swallow hard. "I don't like how you asked that…" Fun for who? Her or me?

"Weeeell…" Her finger lightly danced around on my taut chest. "Depends on how you take it." Her lips curled to where she could pass for the Cheshire Cat.

I'm going to regret this, but fuck it.

Giving in with a sigh, I slipped away from her and stood, ready to walk to our bedroom, before my knees gave out from under me. The breath I'd been letting out knocked out of me with a grunt when I fell to the ground on my knees. Irritated and confused, I threw my head back at Nicole, who stood there smirking down at me. "Did I say you could walk?" The authority in her voice made me shiver with excitement and a need to bow my head to her .

Her pointed eyes remained on me as she strutted ahead. "Wait until I say, then I want you to crawl to the bedroom and wait by the foot of the bed." Her soft voice became firm and dominant when she gave me instructions.

Instinctively, I bowed my head slightly as I sat back on my legs. "Yes, empress."

All I could hear, besides her soft footfalls, were the sounds of drawers sliding and slamming. I couldn't tell if she had removed something from the drawers she opened. There was no telltale clink of chains, nor did I pick up the sound of fabric shuffling around.

What is she doing?

Anticipation crept up my body like cold, bony hands, making my skin crawl with goosebumps. Eager fear squeezed at my throat, causing my breaths to come out jagged and fast. An invisible fist slammed into my chest at the sound of Nicole's voice, making my heart explode and my ears ring.

Gulping, I lowered myself onto my hands and made the mile-long crawl from the living room to our bedroom. Okay, call me dramatic because it wasn't a mile, but it sure as hell felt like it. Seeing Nicole leaning against the doorframe with her arms crossed proudly made me feel smaller the more I crawled toward my destination.

"That's my good boy," she cooed her praise with an excited smile. "You remember your safe-word and gesture?" The excitement in her voice dialed down to press her seriousness across.

Letting out a trembling exhale, I stopped by her feet. "Yes, empress. Safe-word is bomb, and if I can't verbally communicate, then tap your shoulder three times."

Nodding her head and humming in approval, she pushed off the doorframe to walk back inside the room. I went to follow, but the sight of her luscious ass swaying back and forth with every accentuated step had me frozen and drooling. If it weren't for her prompting, I would have been more than happy to waste away in my spot as long as I could watch her strut around.

Fucking hell, we haven't even really started yet I could feel myself ache with a burning need in my pants. Every little movement I made to crawl toward her caused my rock-hard cock to rub against the thick center of my pants, sending pulses of pleasure through my body. With my desire for her ramping up until I was nearly mad with lust, I completely forgot about why I was here in the first place.

It would have stayed that way if it weren't for the slap in the face.

Stunned, all I could do was stare wide-eyed at the toy she dangled before me. "Did you just slap me with a dildo?" I scoffed offendedly.

Laughing softly, she waved the toy about carelessly. "Oh please, it was just a tap." The very cheeky grin made her words doubtful, but I let it slide. "The real smacking and slapping is next week." Sitting on the edge of the bed, she pulled her nightshirt off, revealing her nearly bare body to me. "We're going to see how good you can be for me tonight." The way her voice dipped deviously caused a shudder to rake down my body.

Her finger curled under my chin, lifting my face up to meet her smirking eyes. "Here's what's gonna happen," she started, giggling a little as she stroked my jawline with her thumb, "I'm going to tie you to the bed, then you're going to eat me out while I get your ass ready. Once I'm done, the toy is gonna go into your ass, and I'm gonna go finish up some work."

My legs clenched in anticipation, and I could feel myself tighten in fear at the thought of the toy going up my backdoor. The thing wasn't huge by any means, but it wasn't small, either. For someone who's never really taken anything but Nicole's fingers up there, the ribbed, phallic-shaped toy looked a little menacing. "Don't worry, I'll go slow and easy, and if you can't handle it or don't want to, then we can stop." Her voice softened tenderly as she assured me. "So, what do you say?"

I expected to feel some kind of hesitation or reluctance, yet there was none as I found myself leaning into her touch with a content smile. "I trust you to take care of me how you see fit."

A soft thud of the mattress cushioned my ears before the feeling of Nicole's hands on my face directed my full attention back to her as she kissed me deeply with a big smile. "On the bed," she whispered between heavy kisses.

Clumsily, I moved from the floor to the bed, keeping my lips engaged with hers as best as possible. I didn't want to break our connection, even if it would be brief. I was addicted to her and constantly needed to touch and taste her. " Empress, please, get your cunt on my face, please," I begged needily with a groan as I pulled her down on top of me.

Chuckling chidingly, she wagged her finger at me while smirking cruelly. "Patience, little lion. You're still all dressed."

Her touches and movements were slow and deliberate as she stripped me at a torturously slow pace. No matter how much I begged and pleaded with her, she refused to go beyond the pace of a damn tortoise! Even when I was thrusting helplessly into the air for something—anything! Yes, call me impatient, but this was torture!

Crawling up my body, she straddled my face, hovering her hips inches from my watering mouth. "Hands on the bed," she commanded me with a stern look.

I opened my mouth to protest, but a twitch of an eyebrow was all she needed for me to promptly shut it and obey. Balling my hands into fists, I slammed them onto the bed next to me and gripped the sheets. I wanted to whine and complain, but that would get me nowhere besides possibly in trouble.

Shifting around, she positioned herself so we were in a sixty-nine position before pressing her delicious cunt against my face.

Fucking hell, whoever invented crotchless panties. I fucking love you.

Her juicy pussy lips were perfectly framed by the edged slit of her lace panties, and they helped spread her so well whenever she bent over or parted her legs.

The moment her sweet nectar touched my lips and her intoxicating scent overloaded my system, I was a goner. I dug my face into her vigorously, licking and lapping every inch of her exposed cunt. Her clit was perfectly positioned so that every slide of my tongue brushed right against it, and I was careful to stick my tongue out all the way at times to give her swollen bundle of nerves a nice, long lick.

I was so engrossed in the pleasure of feasting on her that I barely felt her lubed fingers prodding at my entrance. Well, it didn't help that I was being overloaded with pure delight. Her hot, tight mouth working my cock down to her throat was enough to dangle me over the edge. It'd be so easy to blow a load into her needy mouth right now, especially with how her skilled tongue worked my length in tantum with everything.

My resolve nearly snapped with my deep groan when Nicole pressed her fingers into me, right against my prostate. "Breathe, baby, breathe and calm yourself before you blow it." Her words vibrated against my cock as she adorned it with kisses. "You are doing so good for me."

Praise after praise, she cherished me with her sweet words as she fingered my ass to prepare me. I completely relaxed after the first few thrusts and rubs of my prostate, but I couldn't help but naturally clench at the feeling of something big and hard pressing against it. "Little lion, it's okay. Just the tip, and then we'll continue if you can take it." There was a bit of a challenge in her voice, almost as if she was taunting me.

Well, there was no harm in trying, and we were both in the mood. The only thing that would hurt is my ass, but that would go away quickly with time. So, with a deep breath, I spread my legs wider for her. Keeping my breaths controlled, I distracted myself with her cunt, hoping it would help keep me relaxed as she—

Gasping sharply, I threw my head back. "Oh fuck." My lips fell away from her sweet sex the more I dug my head into the pillow.

White-knuckling the sheets, I whimpered through my gasping breaths as my feelings stormed within me. I loved it, really, but the part of me that was conditioned to not enjoy it screamed at me to put a stop to it. But I didn't want to. It felt too good to stop. "Nicole, more, please," I groaned, thrusting my hips a bit at her.

I needed more to silence the objection blaring in my mind. None of this was wrong. There was no written or spoken law that said this wasn't right, just the stupid stigma and ridicule that came with time. But why should I care? Not like we were filming a porno and putting it online, nor were we shouting about our private life for the whole world to know.

There was nothing for me to worry about, so might as well indulge in the guilty pleasure.

"Shit," I hissed through gritted teeth when I felt more being pressed into me. It didn't hurt; I just didn't think it was that much that I had left to take. No matter; it was all in me now. Now, I could—

The gasping moan that choked out of me took me for a spin because I didn't want to believe I could make such a sound. "Nicole," I seethed at her with a quick glare before my writhing body pressed itself into the bed. "Why didn't you warn me…!" I gasped, struggling a little to adjust to the feeling of the vibrating toy thrusting against my G-spot.

And here I thought this would be easy. Fuck me for getting ahead of myself.

"Whoops, guess I forgot to mention the extra parts of it." Nicole feigned innocence as she crawled off the bed with a saccharine smile on her face. "Now, remember, no coming until I say so," she reminded me with a devious chuckle, making all hope of me getting off easy sink to the bottom of an endless pit. "And no leaving the bed."

Scrambling onto my hands and knees, I struggled to the end of the bed as I watched her sit in the lounger by the window. "Empress, please, you can't—fuck!" My fist slammed against the end-board of the bed as I groaned deeply.

The intensity and speed of the toy slowly ramped up the more I struggled to hold myself together. "Fuck you," I rasped out between gritted teeth, glaring at Nicole's smug face as she waved a small, black remote up in the air.

Yeah, holding myself back turned from hard to impossible with how Nicole yanked my chain around. If the toy was at a constant intensity, I could numb it out and endure it fine. But my damn minx kept randomly changing the setting on me, making it impossible for me to zone it out. All I could do was helplessly writhe around on the bed while I begged and pleaded with my empress for some relief, only to be denied each and every time.

I'd go insane if this stretched on any longer. Holding out for half an hour felt like hours to me, and Nicole happily typed away on her laptop without a care in the world.

Temptation ached at my hand to reach down and give my throbbing cock a few strokes to ease myself, but anytime I dared to make any indication of moving my hand near my crotch, Nicole would warn me with a side glare. Yeah, like hell would I risk some kind of punishment from her tonight after this. Also, the last thing I wanted was to go to bed with blue balls.

"How badly do you need to creampie me?" Nicole casually asked, not taking her eyes off the laptop screen.

Honestly, I felt like I'd die if I didn't get my cock inside of her tight, hot cunt right now. "I need it more than I need air right now, so please, let me fuck and fill you, empress, please." Screw oxygen; breeding Nicole's lovely body was more vital.

" Pozhaluysta, lyubov' moya, mne nuzhno byt' vnutri tebya pryamo seychas, inache ya umru ," I whimpered and groaned pleadingly while looking at Nicole deeply.

I don't know what happened, but Nicole's eyes gained a twinkle to them as her body straightened. She breathed out heavily with a seductive smile. "I don't know what you said, but holy hell did you sound hot." Hooking her finger at me to come hither, she set her laptop aside and climbed onto the couch.

Giggling, she leaned against the back of the lounger, gripping the edges as she got on her knees and stuck her ass out. "Keep talking Russian to me, and I'll let you fuck me until you can't come anymore." As if to tempt me, she gave a quick shake of her bubbly butt. "Would you like that, little lion?"

"Yes," I dragged out a low groan of victory as my cock twitched with the thought of relief. " Pozhaluysta, ya budu tvoim khoroshim mal'chikom navsegda. Ya budu tvoyey khoroshey shlyushkoy ."

Leaping off the bed, I closed the distance between us in three long strides. It took me less than a second to position myself behind her and enter her fully in a single thrust after wetting my cock with my spit. " Blyat' !" White hot pleasure blanked my mind as searing pleasure ravaged my orgasming body.

It felt as of my soul left my body with that first rush of my cum into her. I could feel my aching cock thrust in and out of her with abandon, but I don't recall doing it. My body moved on some primal instinct, it felt like, and every squeeze and sweet moan that fell from Nicole's mouth as I fucked her spurred me on harder.

Likewise, my tongue wove such filthy promises to her in Russian as I pounded her within inches of her life and probably mine as well. I wouldn't be surprised if she woke up with bruises on her hips and thighs from how hard I slammed my hips into her. Hell, I would be surprised if I didn't end up with bruises on my hips.

The lounger became a mess of our juices sooner rather than later, and Nicole's essence dripped down ours from how much I made her gush and squirt. Eventually, we moved back to the bed, just in time for my last round.

As much as I wanted to go all night with her, my overwhelmed body was beyond spent after busting two loads into her. That and the vibrating, thrusting toy in my ass didn't help me keep it together, especially not after Nicole turned it on max. Honestly, the fact I managed to hold out as long as I did without passing out from the absurd amount of pleasure that ravaged every single nerve ending in my body to the point of insanity was beyond my comprehension.

My last climax felt like a freight train to my whole body as I weakly gasped her name. "Nicole…" I didn't even have enough energy to moan out her name.

Utterly spent, I collapsed into a whimpering and sobbing mess next to her on the bed when my body just gave out. I fucking hated the drop and crash, especially this one, because I was edged for so long, and the sex was rather overstimulating.

A violent shudder shook my body when Nicole removed the toy, causing immense pressure to cut into my hot nerves.

Thankfully, Nicole was there for me. Like always, she took me into her loving arms, holding me and spoiling me with all the pets, kisses, and sweet nothings in the world. The vulnerable feeling I had at the start of all of this was a lot easier to deal with after I fully fell into Nicole's comfort and assurance. I had nothing to worry about with her around. She would take care of me and guide me back to baseline.

Exhausted, I found myself dozing off in her arms rather fast. I couldn't keep my eyes open when she left my side to go get supplies to clean me off. One heavy blink was all it took for me to slip into slumber's embrace when I watched Nicole's ass walk away from me.

"… YA tebya lyublyu …"