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After Yuri had told me everything about the plan, I sat there for a while and looked out of the window front, completely overwhelmed, where the sun was shining gently towards me.

"And you're really absolutely sure about that?" I wanted confirmation from him again and he nodded while I let my face fall into my hands in bewilderment.

None of that could be true.

"Keeva, I'm really not a bad guy and I love Rian like my own blood, but I really beg you not to tell him about our conversation. We have to keep this between us! I want my damn money back and revenge for Anjelika. Rian would act without a second thought, so I warn you again if you-"

"It's okay!" I interrupted him, looking up at him. He was still standing next to me with the peas pressed to his ass and raised an admonishing eyebrow. "I don't say a word to anyone. I'm a little crazy, but I'm certainly not crazy enough to mess with a Russian who wears sandals privately."

Yuri laughed out loud and put his hand on my shoulder to hand me the pack of peas with the other hand, which I didn't accept with a disgusted look.

"You can keep these. As compensation for the bite."

I grinned stupidly and had a little faith in Juri, but I was already glad that he would be leaving soon. Somehow I always had a fast heart rate around him and felt very uncomfortable in general.

Who knew when his psycho side would come out...

"Good, then everything is set. We'll see each other then."

He gave me his hand like I was making him a promise and I reluctantly shook his hand back, feeling like I'd just made a deal with the devil.

How was I ever going to explain to Rian that I betrayed him? to have lied to him? hiding something from him?

In addition, I volunteered to be used as a decoy by a Russian whom I was just seeing for the third time. One of them in a kimono...

Ohhh Keeva....

Yuri left the front door without a word and I let my head fall on my arms, which I had crossed on the table.

Why couldn't anything be normal anymore?

My life was never really normal, but this was way too much of a good thing...

If my mother knew what I was going through here... Or my father... You would surely die of worry!

Or Padraig and my other cousins. He would certainly have hit Juri on the head with his baton. When I thought about it, I suddenly had to smile fleetingly...

Because Padraig was someone who was not afraid of anyone. He'd fit in here pretty well. Unlike me.

After I had collected myself to some extent and pondered enough, I got up from the dining table and was about to get up to lie down on the shock, but the front door was already opened and Senan looked around the ground floor, totally agitated.

What was the matter with him?

"Back already?" I asked and looked past him, but he closed the door behind him and it was clear that only he was there again.

"Yes, they still have to clarify a few things in the office. I have no idea why I should even go with them. He probably just wanted to prove again that he still has power over the three of us."

"Probably," I shrugged, then walked past him to the fridge. "Would you like something to eat?"

He shook his head and pointed to the stairs, still looking around and looking kind of nervous. "I'm going out with Nero first."

"Okay," I replied, frowning at his weird manner, and while Senan then whistled upstairs, I sat down on the couch in the living room and grabbed the remote control to somehow pass the time until Rian was home again.

RIAN POV.;

"What the hell!?"

I sat at the table with my father, Odran and Senan and could hardly believe my eyes as I looked at the live images from my surveillance camera.

I actually saw Yuri coming out of my house and I immediately jumped up angrily from my chair to rewind the footage to the point where he had entered my house...

What the hell!!!!!

He was there for over an hour and it drove me insane how smugly he was grinning and clutching his fucking Russian ass as he exited.

"That little bastard!" I hissed between my teeth and was about to leave when my father grabbed my arm, but I immediately pushed it away. "Don't touch me!!!"

"What's the matter with you again?!" he yelled back and immediately I grabbed his collar while there was a knock on the door to his office. "This is Mr. Porter and his wife!" my father reminded me. "Now pull yourself together! It's about your future!"

Was he kidding me???

My future sat at home and either had it... I didn't even want to think about it!!!

"You!" I pointed to Senan, who immediately stood up with wide eyes. "Run home immediately and check on Keeva!"

"What's going on?" Odran then intervened, who looked almost more worried than I did. But I was only so calm because I trusted Keeva 100%... She would never cheat on me... But what did Yuri want at my home when only she was there...

"Nothing!" I snapped at my brother and I wanted to go home with my gun in my hand and shoot all the Russians there one by one, but my father was right. I had to stay here and talk to some rich sods about my future. It had to be enough that Senan went to check.

"What are you waiting for?!" I yelled at him again and he started moving while Odran and my father gave each other questioning looks.

Just as my heart was about to implode with excitement, Mr. Porter and his wife walked through the door.

Now it was time to keep it private and keep a good face to the bad game.

"I bid you welcome," my father spoke first and shook hands with both of them in a friendly manner, while I took another deep breath and looked at my cell phone one last time.

How long did it take Senan???

"Hello Mr. Gallagher, we are delighted to finally meet you in person."

I kept staring at my phone until suddenly my father stepped on my foot and I raised my head to glare at him angrily.

"Yeah, hello," I said, ignoring everyone else because my cell phone vibrated at that moment.

"What was that? If you don't want me on your business, just say so! Keeva is here and she's fine!"

"Rian?" I heard my father again and I could tell from the tone of his voice just how irritated he was. Since Keeva was obviously fine, I put all my hopes in my trust in her and focused on those two snobs for now.

At home she would surely tell me what Yuri wanted....

****

I almost fell asleep watching this boring TV program when I finally heard the keys on the front door and looked over at her with anticipation.

Odran was the first to come into the house, gave a cursory nod and immediately made his way to the fridge.

Typical again...

I shook my head smiling and when my eyes met Rians my heart finally filled with warmth again.

"Hey," he greeted me and walked over to the couch to lean down slightly and kiss my cheek. "How was your day?"

He stood in front of me again and almost fixed my eyes while raising an eyebrow in a questioning expression.

Of course my hands were already starting to sweat because I hated lying to him. Hated not telling him anything, but Yuri had made it clear several times what would happen if I didn't shut up.

"Boring," I replied, avoiding his gaze to glance at the TV, but Rian suddenly stepped right between me and the TV, so I looked up at him questioningly.

"So nothing special?" His eyes suddenly seemed to have no expression at all and then when he started playing with the key in his hand I got more nervous than I already was.

"No, why are you asking me something like that?" I asked, shifting nervously on the leather of the couch while he put his hand on my cheek and ran his thumb over my skin.

"Just like that," he breathed. "Only this way."

He pulled his hand away from my cheek and then slowly made his way towards the stairs, while my heart settled again and I looked questioningly at Odran, who was standing at the kitchen counter with a fork in his mouth and only with the shoulders shrugged.

And then I suddenly heard such a loud bang that I immediately got up off the couch and cried out.

My heart was in my throat and I turned around with huge eyes to find only parts of my plastic suitcase on the dark wooden floor.

"What are you doing there??!!", I yelled at Rian upstairs, but he didn't give me a reaction. When I ran to my suitcase and looked up the stairs in bewilderment, I almost got my hair dryer thrown in my face, but I was able to duck down quickly enough and it flew past me onto the floor, where it also fell into all its individual pieces.

"Rian!" I yelled again and I was starting to tremble from panic as to what was going on here, but the only answer I got was a pile of clothes thrown straight at me, which made me fall backwards onto my ass.

Such a crap !!!

I pushed my clothes off me and was about to get up when Rian suddenly stood right in front of me with a look that made me shudder and when he roughly grabbed my arm and pulled me up, the first tears welled up in my eyes eyes alone from how he just touched me.

"So you mean the lessons with Juri were boring?!" he yelled at me and my heart almost stopped at that moment. I opened my lips, but not a word came out of me, which apparently made him all the more angry. "TALK THE FUCK!!"

With wide eyes and countless tears streaming down my cheeks, I looked up at him and tried to explain myself through trembling lips while my heart pounded painfully against my ribs.

"I... I forgot he was here," I stuttered awkwardly, which only made him laugh.

"Forgot?" he laughed, looking past me at Odran. "She forgot! Apparently there's so much going on here when we're not there that it's easy to forget something like that!"

"He wanted to see you!" I tried to calm him down somehow, because his grip on my arm became even tighter and I felt his entire body tense more and more.

"You're lying!" he then said with a cold expression, standing so close in front of me that I could feel his breath on my forehead. "I can tell right away when you're lying, so you should think carefully about what you say next! So what was he doing here?!"

Great !!!!

If I told him the truth, Yuri might slaughter my whole gypsy family. If I'm not telling the truth, Rian will probably think I've fucked that nasty Russian guy and put a bullet in both my head and him.

One way or another I lost!

"Keeva!" he yanked at my arm again, sending pain up through my shoulder.

"It's okay!" I blurted out and took a deep breath to wipe my tears away with my other hand. "He wanted to discuss something with me."

"And what?!"

"I can not tell you that!"

His gaze became stunned again and he shook me as if he wanted to shake the truth out of me.

"Keeva! I'm dead serious! If you feel like lying to me, I automatically assume the worst! So tell me right now what he wanted from you!!"

"No!", I then said just as loudly as he did, tearing myself away from his grasp. "Have you ever heard of trust?!"

"Trust!" he yelled, running his hands through his black hair in turmoil. "So I'm supposed to just trust if something is being kept from me and I'm then also lied to. I'm supposed to trust a Russian who will tell me at every opportunity that he would take you immediately and you, a woman who I already know showed Jake that I can't trust her!?"

Okay, that was unfair!

"You can't compare this situation to Jake! Besides, I only danced with Jake!"

"I'm not talking about that!" he replied immediately. "You already lied to me and didn't tell me that he was here!!!"

He kicked my suitcase in anger and I took a step back in fear while he gave me one last fleeting look.

"Out!"

I parted my lips in disbelief and the chill that just a single word from him triggered sent goosebumps down my arms that was anything but pleasant.

"Please trust me," I tried to explain and took a step towards him, but he immediately shook his head and pointed past me to the front door.

"I won't go!" I replied to his gesture and wanted to touch his arm, but he slapped my hand away with far too much force, making me gasp.

It really hurt!

"Enough!", I then heard Odran's voice, who also stood between me and Rian to glare at his brother angrily. "Are you crazy?!"

"Are you serious?!", Rian then turned to him and the tension in the room was almost unbearable. "Do you want to see the recordings???"

Rian took out his phone but Odran refused.

"Do you know what you are? Blind with love! This fucking jealousy will destroy you!"

"Fuck you!" Rian just said and pushed Odran so that he almost lost his footing. "You know what! Just fuck you all! I don't care if a shitty orgy is starting here! I'm going!"

He wanted to pass me and Odran, but again I tried to stop him, but Odran held me back.

"Rian!" I shouted, but he didn't turn around anymore....he just walked away leaving only chaos...

"He'll be back," Odran tried to calm me down, like before. But this time it was somehow different... and that was all my fault...