The Cowboy Who Strolled Into Town (19 page)

Chapter Two

The Kidnapping

As she drove back to her house, Natasha was still seething mad and thinking of how Monica had even brought that creep to her house making him know where she lived!

She was going to call her and give her some words to never ever try to fix her on another blind date or bring creeps to her house.

As she entered into her neighborhood which was not a very good one, with suspicious looking people always mingling around, Natasha was used to it. This was the only place she could afford to buy a house in, with her little pay as a secretary plus she still had to pay off all her student loan debts. 

She sometimes wished she was Monica who was married to a rich chef husband who took care of her and was always going to fancy vacations.

Monica never lacked anything while Natasha was always trying to meet ends meet. That was life for her as a single black American woman trying to make a living. But then again Natasha also never wanted to only be a house wife to some rich guy and instead wanted to work and make her own money too.

As she arrived at the house, she then parked her car and walked up to her front door. Hairs then raised up on her neck as she felt as if something was wrong.

Whenever she locked her door, she always placed the locker in a certain direction. Living in an unsafe neighborhood you had to be careful. Her heart started now beating rapidly at the thought that someone might have broken in into her little house as the locker faced wrong direction.

With her shin gun in hand, feeling brave and not thinking clearly or considering calling the cops, she unlocked the door and stepped into the house. 

She then let out a sigh after checking everything and finding it all in place. The thief had stolen nothing and she was also overjoyed after running to her bedroom to check her safe which had her savings money and finding it all there.

But that joy got cut short, as someone roughly pushed her to the wall and pressed a hand to her mouth to keep her from screaming while throwing away her shin gun. 

But she retaliated and started trying to kick at him and push him from her, but he was so strong and pinned her to the wall until she could no longer move any part of her body. The guy was wearing black clothes and had a black mask so she could not see his face.

Tears started threatening to trail down her face as she hoped he would not rape her and she was now whimpering in fear. How could she have been stupid in not calling the police before entering the house?

‘’Listen closely to this bitch. ‘’ the guy then said to her and she was surprised to hear a Russian accent which she recognized from hearing it spoken by a Russian exchange student from college.

‘’I have a message for you from Gavril Baskovich Mosolov leader of the Mosolov clan.’’ He then continued placing some small white envelope letter into her hand.

‘’Read it and if you dare call the cops, we will know as we have spies everywhere and you will face the consequences.’’ And then he moved off her and jumped out through her bedroom window.

With her heart still rapidly beating, the only thought on Natasha`s mind was what the hell did Russians of all people want from some black American woman like her?

She first sat on the bed and with nervously shaking hands she then opened the little white letter to read the contents.

Dear Miss Natasha Camille Walker

By now I’m sure you already know where this letter is from. There is pest that I have been trying to get rid of. That pest keeps on ruining my business deals and now I have learned that the pest has some evidence enough to send many of my best men to jail for life.

Miss Walker, this is where you come in.  But first as a sense of humor, did you know that
Natasha is actually a sultry Russian spy name? And that my dear is what you are going to do for me, as your name suggests.

This Pest`s name is Viktor Ivanovich Dmitri and you are going to spy on him for me, find out where he is keeping the evidence and bring it to me.  Apparently as a billionaire he is full of resources, well-guarded and even all my assassination and infiltration attempts of him have failed. But don’t worry I’m am not completely heartless and will not require of you to commit murder or kill him. I just want the evidence.

I’m sure you are wondering why me? Well my dear it’s because you work at his company don’t you? And Mr. Dmitri likes his women just as much as he like his tea...Black. I know that since his beloved wife was black and accidentally killed by one of my man, after his father Ivan a rival mafia boss of mine pissed me off. I only wanted his second son to be shot on the shoulder and not for it to be a kill shot. But that stupid wife of his jumped in and got killed in the process. And now that Dmitri son has become a pest to me in some stupid quest for revenge.

P.S I have your little brother, Jeremiah isn’t it. A handsome young man, and if you want to see him in perfect form just do what I tell you to do and you will survive. Just don’t piss me off too.

Petro has left a little package for you by the table, just turn right from you kitchen window. That is how you will receive your instructions. Be quick in sending me an answer of your reply as I am an impatient man.

Tootles my little Russian spy

Yours and always watching

Gavril Baskovich Mosolov

At first Natasha just stood frozen after reading the letter, wandering and hoping that maybe this was all a dream and she would soon suddenly wake up.

Because how then could she take in this turn of events,

All her life she had been a good law abiding American citizen, and never ever gotten her hands dirty but now some dangerous Russian Mafia boss wanted her to work for him? Plus how this could even be happening to her while living in America was also puzzling as weren’t these kinds of things supposed to only happen there in Russia!

Worse she was to spy on some White Russian Billionaire, son of some other Powerful Mafia boss and also the boss of her company. This was so not going to end in a good way for her whether she accepted the spy job or not, as in the end there would be still one pissed mafia boss after her. Whether it be Gavril or Ivan.

How the heck had she found herself caught in the middle of this and all because she was black and worked for Dmitri’s company. Life was unfair as she had never even met her Russian billionaire boss! He was inclusive, always surrounded by bodyguards and usually worked from his home office.

And then there was her dear poor little brother Jeremiah. They had just found each other after being separated by the adoption system as their parents died early while they were still children.

She had reluctantly let him go to college and to continue living with his adopted family as they had raised him up wonderfully.

And now she had to learn that her only family, was kidnapped and now in the hands of the Russian Mafia. All because they wanted to get to her. 

Because of that she knew she had no choice but to accept the dangerous mission. So she bravely stood up and went to her kitchen following the instructions. This irked her to know that this was not their first time of them breaking into her house since Gavril knew specific details about her house already.

On the table she found a package and hesitantly opened it hoping it was not a bomb.

Surprisingly, there was a pink and womanly normal blackberry phone. She then pressed the on button and a white message popped up on a black screen.

This is not any ordinary phone. It can’t be traced, we can turn it off and erase all messages with a click from afar. This is how we will communicate. As for the letter, you shall go outside, stand by your door and burn it with the lighter placed on your front door window sill.  One of my men will be watching you just to make sure you follow my instructions. And more will be coming soon.

The screen then became blank and returned to the home screen now looking like a normal functioning blackberry phone.

After burning a stupid letter while being watched, Natasha then went back into her house feeling furious at all these demands being issued to her. She was not some fucking robot to be controlled!

Chapter Three

The work party event.

“Breath in, breathe out...’’

Natasha found herself trying to calm her nerves. She so could not believe she was being forced to do this by some Russian mafia boss.

Right now she sat in her car at the car park. She was about to do her first assignment as a freaking spy for the mafia and she so did not like the sound of that. It would have sounded better if it was a spy for the FBI or the good guys as right now she was working for the bad guys.

Apparently the assignment came after a week and what a horrible week of knowing she was being followed and watched. It was a wonder that she was even able to concentrate while also worrying about her brother.

She had called his adoption Parents a wonderful couple the Turners, Agnes and Phillip. Luckily they did not know about the kidnapping and believed Jeremiah to be enjoying his time at college.

Natasha was happy to leave them thinking like that. As for his college they thought he went home for some time off.

The assignment she received from her new blackberry was to meet and seduce Mr. Dmitri until he brought her to his home as that’s where they believed the documents to be hidden. Then she was to steal them and bring them to them.

And now she was about to attend a work party being hosted to celebrate Dmitri company`s 10th anniversary. 

She never usually attended work parties because why the heck would she want to hang out with rich snob bosses and their expensively dressed wives. But right now she was being forced to attend this one as this was her chance to meet Mr. Dmitri and supposedly seduce him.

What a damn easy task they said except how the hell was she going to be able to seduce some freaking white Russian billionaire who had been rumored to have never even shown a single interest in women after the death of his wife?

She had looked Viktor up on the internet and had been surprised by how handsome he was. Some pictures showed him with his now dead black wife and the wife had been gorgeous and Russian. How could she compete with that?

She had voiced her concerns to Gavril using the pink blackberry and he had replied that he would send some help.

She had then gotten the surprise of some Russian woman ringing her door bell and carrying lots of things from make up to dresses.

And now while still in her car, she had to admit that the woman had done a damn great work as she looked damn hot.

And so after checking her make up again on the review mirror, she got out of the car and went to attend the work party to seduce a Russian Billionaire.

After giving the bouncer guy her invitation paper, she entered into this gorgeous place, the Golden Riddle five star hotel where the party was being held in one of their party rooms.

Inside, music was playing, waiters were going around serving drinks, and it was sort of like a club scene with people chatting. She recognized most of her coworkers and went to chat to most of them to distract herself before planning how she was going to meet her target.

While doing so she almost blushed at how the men were staring at her, since she was after all the best dressed. Then there was jealousy looks from their jealous wives.

It was then at that moment as she ordered her drink that one of her female friends then whispered into her ear.

‘’Natasha, I actually can’t believe this but I think that Viktor our billionaire boss is staring at you from the VIP Section.’’

At hearing this, Natasha first froze as it was too soon to face her target and she had not even gotten a single drink to calm her nerves.

She then hesitantly turned around slowly ready to face the man who had brought all this Mafia trouble upon her, only to be reeled in by his hypnotizing dark intense grey eyes.

*****

Viktor Ivanovich Dmitri wondered when this time wasting party event was going to end as he had much better things to do and he was even risking his life by being here. But he was the owner of the company and had to be there for his company`s anniversary party.

With all these assassination attempts by the spineless bastard Gavril, Viktor could not wait for the next trial as he was going to bring Gavril down and make him pay for the killing of his dear wife.

And dammit she had been freaking pregnant with his child. Why could she not have let him take the gun shot instead of taking it for him after noticing the assassinator!

Even with 5 years passed since her death, he still missed her and his heart still ached for his high school sweetheart and beloved wife Natalia.

All the evidence he had was going to completely destroy the Mosolov clan and it would take Gavril a really long time to pick things up after such a blow. 

  And now his little grown up, playboy brother Aleksei was pestering him and telling him about all his hook ups with gorgeous ladies from Thailand where he had been visiting for some project of his. As if he cared about hearing about females! There was no one who could ever replace his wife! 

Luckily it was only his little brother who had come as all the others who could not make it, were mostly unwelcome. Like his Mafia boss father Ivan and his older brother, the so called next Mafia heir Sergei who were busy in Russia for business. Viktor did not see eye to eye with them and blamed their mafia ways for the death of his wife.

Even if his Mafia father believed that he had paid his side of the debt by capturing the guy who had fired the gun shot and torturing him to death. Viktor was still angry as that did not bring Natalia and his child back!

And as for his dear mother, she had died of Cancer a long time ago.

‘’Brother, Thailand girls are so bloody hot. I had the best time of my life sampling every one of them, next time you should so join me and you won’t regret it!”

Viktor rolled his eyes at this as they sat in the VIP section by the red sofas. He then looked around trying to find something more interesting than his brother whom he loved dearly, but was annoying sometimes.

It was then he noticed something which completely caught his attention in the normal section by the bar.

His eyes then started tracing that dangerous sexy red dress which hugged that beautiful hour glass curved body to perfection while showing those damn inviting curves. Then there was that dark tempting and delicious looking dark chocolate skin, which Viktor wanted to lick at until he could not get enough.

He just could not stop staring at this magnetic temptress and felt completely spell bound. He then saw one of her female friends who had noticed him looking, whisper something to her.

The object of his attention first froze and then turned around only to trap him with that heart shaped face, full kissable red lips and hypnotizing dark brown eyes which he could get lost into forever.  

‘’WOW! I am I dreaming or is the sky going to fall today as my brother is actually looking at a female!” he then heard the sound of his brother Aleksey exclaiming in pure surprise.

This broke the spell and Viktor looked back at his brother in utter bewilderment, wondering what had just freakin happened to him!