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

hope she had about Ana living suddenly faded.
    “I’m sorry, but that’s a huge probability,” Bianca whispered sadly.
    “Now you can see why I can’t be with someone like Santini.”
    “Sergei is nothing like Santini. I’m sure you noticed how sweet Sergei could be,” Amber said.
    “Yes, when he wasn’t mad at me.” Lana chuckled. She was thinking about the many times he had been nice before she would purposefully piss him off.
    “Well, we all get them mad, but usually because they are jealous, possessive fools who don’t get us yet.”
    “So he’s dead, isn’t he?” Lana asked about Santini.
    “I can’t say,” Amber said with shrug. “All we can tell you was that he was a very bad man. So bad, I would love to put a bullet in him myself. If he’s dead the world is a safer place.”
    “If it wasn’t for Nikolai and Sergei, my family would be dead, and I would have been raped then killed by Santini. He set us up to be killed by Nikolai for supposedly getting him sent to prison in Russia. They saved us, and it was because of them that we even get a chance at our happiness,” Bianca said as she shook her head, reliving the day her life changed.
    Amber paused, took a deep breath, and then added, “Santini organized the plan that got Luciano and me kidnapped. When we were taken I was…raped…while Luciano was forced to watch.” Amber paused, taking a deep breath before she continued, “We still struggle with the emotional toll it took on us and our marriage. Santini’s evil personified.”
    “I knew he was bad and violent. There was no questioning that, but it doesn’t change the fact that he killed my sister, and I have no way to find her body.” Lana’s body slumped in defeat.
    “The guys can probably help you find answers. I know Sergei would,” Bianca responded.
    Wanting to fight her love for Sergei, Lana said, “These men may act like good men at the beginning, but then get abusive when they get tired of you.”
    “Lana, you can’t compare every man to Santini, especially Sergei. I’ve been married to my husband for almost three years now and never once have I felt that he would strike me. Spank me on occasion, yes. Well, only when I’ve been a bad girl,” Amber said with a wink and a smile. “But he’s never made me feel scared that he would truly hurt me. Even when we first got together and he was angry with me, he didn’t hurt me physically. Emotionally, the man made me feel all sorts of things, but any time he brought me emotional pain it was because of a huge misunderstanding and because he’s an idiot. It was never intentional and I hurt him too.”
    “Just give it a shot,” Bianca added, patting Lana’s thigh and looked at her pleadingly.
    Lana groaned and whined, “I don’t know if I can. I just want to go home. Please.”
    “We’re almost there, now. Just think about what we said. Use your heart not your head. It’s the best decision I’d ever made,” Bianca said.
    Amber smiled and clapped happily as she said, “Me too.”
    “Are you telling me Luciano kidnapped you too?” Lana asked amazed. This seemed like a trend. A happy one, she had to admit to herself.
    “No, his men did at the request of another,” Amber said sadly. “Luciano rescued me when he heard about it.”
    “I’m telling you, the guys can be bad, but to us, they are wonderful. I wouldn’t trade Nikolai for anything,” Bianca added.
    Lana looked at the two women and realized they were super happy to be married to the mob, but she wasn’t sure she could do it. Did Sergei even want to marry me? Or was I just a goal?
    The divider came down and Luciano turned to them. “Ladies we’re almost here.”
    Amber smiled at her husband, then said to Lana. “We’ll walk you in.”
    “You don’t have to,” Lana answered.
    “We know, but we’d like to make sure we got everything in the right place.” Amber wasn’t going to take no for an answer.
    “You two really did put everything