Page 13 of Bratva Warriors 4
Felix went over and knelt in front of her.He grasped her hand gently and asked her, “Can you tell us what happened?We never really knew how Magna died.”
Briar raised her head and looked around the room.
Kirill was there as well as Sergi, Misha and Willy.
Felix tapped his brother’s number on the screen of his cell.He spoke in low tones to Kosta, who was currently in New Orleans.He told him that may have finally found the truth behind Magna’s death.He sat down on the arm of the sofa next to Briar as he kept the sound on so Kosta could hear this as well.
Briar held her hand out to Willy and when he took it she drew him down to the sofa.Looking into his eyes she said, “I guess I have to face my past too.”She shook her head slowly.“Although I think I have a reason for not talking about it.”She sighed heavily.
They all waited for her to start.
Finally, she spoke, “I was only five.My mom and I were just finishing lunch when the door flew open and that woman, Greta, rushed inside.She looked at mom and began screaming at her.At first, I didn’t know what she was saying but my mom got up and began telling her off.Greta was slapping my mother and calling her terrible names.Mom fought back but she was very pregnant and she couldn’t really move well.”Briar looked over at Sergi and said, “Greta was screaming something about my mother sleeping with her fiancée and I heard her call him by name.It was Vitali.My mother said he was never Greta’s man.But Greta said he was supposed to marry her then he found my mother and he walked away from his vows to be with her and then she called my mother a home wrecker.That soon the world would know she was nothing but a whore.My mother told Greta she wasn’t a whore.That she and Vitali loved each other and that the son in her belly would be Vitali’s heir.Greta shouted that her baby would never be born and then she began beating on my mother.Then when my mother fell to the floor she was kicking at her belly.My mother screamed and it wasn’t until her belly began to bleed that Greta stopped kicking her.Then she reached down and tore the pendant from her neck.Greta finally left.”
“And Vitali?”Felix growled.“Where was he all this time?”
Briar shook her head.“He finally got there but it was too late by the time he arrived.He checked her first then he picked her up and tried to carry her to his car but my mom opened her eyes and she told him she wasn’t going to make it.And the baby wasn’t going to either.She told him it was Greta who beat her.Then she closed her eyes and she never woke up again.”
“And what did Vitali do about that?”Sergi finally asked.
Briar shrugged.“What could he do?My mother and his child were dead.He knew he couldn’t stay there any longer.He panicked and grabbed me.Then we drove away.I didn’t want to go with him but I was only five and he was an adult.He didn’t really give me a choice in the matter.The next day we got on a plane and I had no idea where we were going.When we finally reached the City, I had no idea where we were.I tried to keep up with him but he was rushing so much I fell behind.Then I got lost.”Her words were spoken softly yet everyone in that room could hear the fear in her voice.“I just sat down.People came and went but they all ignored me.I was so scared that I couldn’t even cry.I think I sat there for the rest of that day, then it got dark and I still couldn’t move.I think it was the next day and almost dark out again before anyone stopped and asked me if I was lost.”She shook her head.“I never saw Vitali again until that day many years later in the restaurant.”
Willy looked up and said, “A friend of mine, a man named Pippy found her wandering around.He took her back with him.He made sure she was fed and had something to drink.I know it doesn’t mean anything but he kept her with him for as long as she wanted to stay, Pippy isn’t the kind to hurt kids but he kept her safe and close.”
Felix glared at his brother Kirill then he looked over at Sergi.“Can I kill him now?”he demanded.
With a sigh, Sergi tipped his head back and stared at the ceiling.
Chapter Seven
Sergi lowered his headand shook it.“Not until we get his side of the story.There are things here that do not make sense to me and it all has to be brought out into the open.We need all the facts before I make up my mind.If you remember, Vitali said he came back and he searched for her.What happened to her mother back home?Who buried her?Was there a police report?Did no one know about Tiyana...Briar?How could Vitali just walk away from Magna and his son?”
“Magna took her maiden name back after her husband died,” Kosta informed them from the speaker on Felix’s Cell.“Her husband was Tiyana’s father but Magna wanted Grigori as her last name.The family pride and all.They hadn’t been married but two years when he died and his family wanted nothing to do with her.They said she brought shame to them when she had his child before they married.She didn’t do that but they insisted.They never acknowledged the marriage because it wasn’t done in a church.”
Kirill now took over the telling of this part, “But Davon married her before he went off to war.And the family got away with that shit because we were in training for Bratva and never knew what was happening.Our father had died by then or he never would have let that happen.”He shook his head.“We went to the family and we were told because they didn’t recognize the marriage, they got his benefits from the service.They left Magna with Tiyana as a baby and nothing to live on.”
Sergi nodded.“Ok, but first we speak to Vitali then we prove Magna was married and deserved to get everything Davon left behind.Now that will go to Briar but I’ll bring down the whole family before we are done.”
