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  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  CREDITS

  NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

  Bratva Blood Brothers

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

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  About K.J Dahlen

  Kosta

  Book Eight

  Bratva Blood Brothers

  K.J. Dahlen

  CREDITS

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  This is a work of fiction. All characters, places, businesses and incidents are from the author’s imagination, or they are used fictitiously and are definitely fictionalized. Any trademarks or pictures herein are not authorized by the trademark owners and do not in any way mean the work is sponsored by or associated with the trademark owners. Any trademarks or pictures used are specifically in a descriptive capacity.

  K.J. Dahlen

  Kosta

  Book Eight

  Bratva Blood Brothers Series

  Copyright © 2019

  Editor: Leanore Elliott

  Book Design & Cover: Wicked Muse

  NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

  Now that K.J Dahlen is out on her own, she will be releasing new books.

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  Bratva Blood Brothers

  “We are brothers by choice. Blood has brought us together and will forever hold us strong.

  Brothers we are and brothers we will always be.”

  Chapter One

  Kosta groaned as he opened his eyes. The sun wasn’t even up yet but after so many years of getting up early, his body was used to waking at a certain time of the day. Even on his days off, he woke at this time of day. It all came from when he was young, being trained in the Bratva organization. Groaning again, he rolled to his side and sat up. One of his habits was once he was awake, he couldn’t go back to sleep and he couldn’t lay in bed. His body was primed and ready for the day.

  As he sat up, he glanced at the clock and groaned again. It was only 4:30 am. No wonder he was tired. It was going to be a long day. He stood and stretched. His body was tight and naked, he slept in the raw as it helped him to sleep better. His muscled bulged and flexed as he went through a series of light exercises to work out the kinks.

  His bedroom was big with its huge bed. As big as he was, he appreciated the room his supersized bed gave him to sleep. The windows faced the east to catch the early morning sun and as the sun rose in the sky it would have pointed out the masculine furniture in its dark wood. His nine drawer dresser and walk in closet held his wardrobe while the dark wood desk taking up most of the back wall held his laptop and security system. It wasn’t nearly the size of Yuri’s system but it was connected to the system at the hotel in case Yuri needed to get a hold of him after hours.

  He had very little on the walls but he did have a few family pictures. One of those pictures was him with his two brothers, Felix and Kirill. They were the only family he had left in this world. Their parents had died in the Russia a long time ago but when they came of age, the Bratva welcomed them and they became agents to represent their homeland.

  His feet padded over the floor to the bathroom and he turned on the shower. While he waited for the water to heat, he stared at the man in the mirror. He was tall, well over 6’5. His dark hair was beginning to silver at the temples but that could be because he was thirty eight years old. Although some days he felt much older. His job wasn’t easy and sometimes, it was more than a little dangerous, but he wouldn’t trade it for the world. He taken hit, bullets, car crashes and even had been knifed twice. His scars were there, but he wore them with honor. A Bratva Soldier until he took his last breath. His job was to protect. He liked what he did and who it did it for. He would lay down his life for the five men who called themselves brothers. He smiled as he thought about them and the women who took them on.

  Those women were just as tough as the men he served and there was no doubt about that but they were complete. Together, they were a family. He thought about his own brothers Felix and Kirill and while he missed them, he knew their bond was still in place. None of the Grigori men had found women strong enough to love them yet, but they all knew they had to be out there somewhere. He did have a thought that he was almost too old to have a family but he that’s what he wanted more than anything. He’d watched the brothers become husbands and fathers and he knew that’s what he wanted more than anything. To have his own family, a wife and a couple of kids of his own.

  The man in the mirror stared back at him with a longing in his dark brown eyes that Kosta found unsettling. Before he could worry over it, he took a leak and stepped into the shower. The hot water felt so good and as he soaped his body, he felt the scars he’d just looked at in the mirror. The life he’d chosen was hard on his body but that just meant he’d become too good in doing what he did. He as still alive and that meant something.

  He looked down at the tattoos he wore. Each one meant something only to him and he read his accomplishments on his skin. No one had ever asked about his body art and he didn’t mentioned it either. When he washed his cock, he had to hiss. His morning wood was hard and unrelenting. It had been three very long years since he’d been with a woman and this was just his body’s way of reminding him of that fact.

  Using the soap as a lubricant, he rubbed his built up heat out. It wasn’t as good as being inside a woman but it would have to do for now. He washed his seed down the drain and finished his shower. Drying himself off, he walked naked back to his bedroom and got dressed.

  When he got to the kitchen, he made a pot of coffee and from his living room window, he watched as the sun broke over the horizon. The hot strong brew he was sipping warmed him as it hit his belly and everything in his world was mellow. He glanced at the calendar on the wall and noted the date, January fourth. Frowning, he didn’t know why that date popped out to him but he had a feeling today would come to mean something special to him, but he didn’t know what it would come to mean, not yet.

  Shutting off the coffee pot, he made his way to his garage and when he hit the switch, his door opened. He got into his vehicle and started the engine. Pulling out of the garage, he steered his SUV toward the hotel. His day had started and he was ready for whatever was to come. Protect and serve the Bratva and see what came. It had never been a boring aspiration as their lives were not cookie cutter to say the least. He’d learned to expect anything at any time. Kosta figured today would be no different.

  ~* * * *~

  Hours later Mikial, Yuri and Barshan along with there wives and children were having lunch together in the restaurant when Kosta joined then.

  He smiled at the cozy sight and pushed down the yearning to have the same deep down inside.

  He sat down at the table with them. He and Yuri were speaking quietly when Mikial interrupted him, “Kosta I was wondering if you could take Pepper to Chalmette in the next few days? Would you have time to do that, do you think?”

  Kosta looked over at Mikial and his wife and smiled. “Of course I would, just tell me when you want to go.”

  “Tomorrow if possible,” Pepper said. “If you have the time to go, that is. Tomorrow is the anniversary of my mother’s death and I’d like to be there. I don’t know why after all this time but I would like to go.”

  “Of course.” He nodded. “I would be glad to take you anytime.”

  Pepper smiled at him. “Thank you.”

  Mikial looked over at his wife. “Are you sure you’re feeling up to it?”

  Pe
pper nodded. “Of course. Marie said she would watch the babies for me and it shouldn’t take too long.” She shrugged. “I don’t know why but something is telling me I have to be there tomorrow.”

  Kosta smiled. Pepper had just given birth to her twins a few weeks ago. Hers were the third twin births from the five men and they were all thrilled. Mikial and Pepper had two very sweet baby girls and they both looked like their mother but had their father’s temper.

  He looked her over carefully while they were sitting there and she looked tired. Her pregnancy had been hard. Taking on the full time care of demanding babies had drained her reservoir of strength. Then her two day labor further complicated things. But the first glance of Kenisha and Melina made it all worthwhile. They were beautiful babies and the family these men had made with one another was getting bigger.

  Then he took note of the look that passed between Mikial and his wife. It was the same look it had been from the beginning with those two. Pure love if you believed in that sort of thing. Kosta wasn’t sure he believed in love but he could see lust and desire in Mikial’s eyes as well.

  It wasn’t that Kosta didn’t believe in love, he did. He saw it every day in the eyes of the five men he served. He secretly wanted someone of his own to look into his eyes with the look these women looked at their men with. Sighing almost silently, he wondered if he would ever find the one woman that was put of this earth just for him. He was beginning to wonder if she existed at all. While he had been with a lot of women in the past, he never felt that spark that would lead to a real connection. He used them as they used him for mindless sex and release. Although he’d had to be very careful not to hurt them as he was bigger than most men, he was always in control. He hadn’t yet to find the one woman who’d take him on and make him lose control. He enjoyed sex very much but he always had to control his body, as he never wanted to hurt the women he slept with.

  He glanced over at Barshan and his young wife Talli. Talli had yet to bring her baby into the world but she had a glow to her face. A glow all the other women had had when they carried their babies. Barshan laid his hand on her ballooning belly and Kosta smiled. The story these men shared was being alone in the world. Growing up from too young an age to be on their own, but the men had all survived childhood and moved on and now, they got what every man wanted, a family of their own.

  While Kosta had his brothers, these men had each other. Roman had found his father and his younger brother, Iosif, but that situation was troubled at best. His father had not taken well to the fact that both sons preferred the freedom of this new country. Timor wanted to bring his oldest son back to the country he should have grown up in and he wanted him to take over for him when he retired. The fact that Roman wouldn’t leave his much younger wife and twin sons behind had left a bad taste in the old man’s mouth but Kosta couldn’t see what the problem was. He’d known the other man wanted a family and now he had one. Of course, he would stand with them. Roman was well secured financially as they all were. Plus, the fact they had earned that right with hard work and their own sweat and blood. Now all their work was paying off for them.

  Kosta was financially secure. He never spent too much money on the things he had but what he did have was paid off. When he first came over with the five brothers, he lived at the hotel for a couple of years. Then when he had saved enough to pay cash for the land, he built his house on it. He paid off the house almost before it went up too. He didn’t like to owe anyone money. All too often, he noted people used debt to hold a man hostage and he didn’t want that. He’d learned as a small child in Russia, if you don’t have the money to pay for what you want, then you wait until you do.

  Kosta looked around the restaurant they were sitting in. It was clean and quiet and people loved to come here for a meal. The food was excellent and the service was very good. He knew Yuri had worked hard to get where he was with the hotel and the restaurant, hell they all had accomplished what they set out to do when they’d arrived her to the U.S.

  These five men had indeed become their own family. He felt happy for them and he would protect them all with his very life.

  Chapter Two

  Early the next morning, Kosta waited for Pepper in the lobby of the hotel.

  Stephanou joined him and Kosta raised an eyebrow at his appearance.

  Stephanou shrugged and told him, “Mikial wanted me along as a second. No offense brother, but I can see his reason.”

  Kosta remembered the last time he took Pepper to her mother’s residence and had to agree with him. “Da, so can I. Mikial has reason to protect his woman. If there is more trouble, I can use the help. Hopefully, we’ll go and get back without any issues at all. Her father is in jail and his crazy wife is locked up.”

  “True, but you never know who else is out there do you? I mean her father has made some really bad enemies over the years,” Stephanou pointed out.

  Kosta shrugged. “Well, that’s true enough but if anyone thinks getting to him through her is going to affect him, they would be so wrong. I think right now, he’d be very happy to have her dead. Might solve a lot of his problems. Or maybe he’ll go to prison with an easier mind knowing his mistakes are behind him. He made many that came back to haunt him.”

  “You got that right,” Stephanou agreed with him.

  They both turned as Mikial escorted his wife inside.

  Kosta watched the other man as he wrapped his arm around her waist and kept her close to her.

  Mikial stopped in front of them. He looked at Kosta and nodded. “I’m trusting you to watch over her and keep her safe.”

  Pepper blushed and swatted his arm. “Oh baby, you know he will. He’s always been there for any of you guys in the past. He’s an important part of this family too, you know.”

  Mikial nodded. “Of course I know he will, I just want to remind him, that’s all.” He turned to look at her fully. “And you’re right, he’s very much a part of us.”

  For a moment his words stunned Kosta. He never realized how much he wanted to be accepted by these men and Mikial’s words meant a lot to him. That didn’t mean he couldn’t do his job however, and Pepper’s safety would be in his hands.

  He walked over to the front desk and reaching behind it, he gathered up a few plants he’d picked up for her to plant today. It was the anniversary of the day she lost her mother. He didn’t know if she would want these as a reminder of that day or not but he’d gotten them for her anyway.

  Returning to where she and Mikial were standing, Kosta showed them to her. “I thought you might want to plant these in your mother’s memory.”

  ~* * * *~

  Pepper gazed down at the live plants and smiled as tears gathered in her eyes. Lavender forget me nots had been her mom’s favorite flowers. She didn’t remember telling anyone that tidbit of information but somehow, Kosta knew.

  Looking up at him she whispered, “How did you know these were her favorite?”

  “I was told by the florist forget me nots are a very special way to remember someone close to you and I know your mom’s favorite color was lavender, so I took a chance.” Faint color stained his cheeks as he admitted his purchase.

  “Thank you.” She leaned over and kissed his cheek. She backed into her husband’s arms quickly and laid her hand on his arm as Mikial growled. Looking up at him, she stared into his eyes with a pleading look.

  Mikial paused then exhaled softly. “Ok, but please don’t do that again. I’d hate to have to kill him.”

  Pepper smiled. “You are a silly man. I only have love in my heart for you.”

  Mikial glanced over at Kosta. “Don’t spend too much time in Chalmette today and if there is any sign of trouble get back here quickly. Please take no chances.”

  “Of course,” Kosta agreed. “I will keep your woman safe and Stephanou will be there as well.”