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Dimitri somewhere in the vicinity of his heart. “No. She doesn’t.”
     
    TONI WATCHED FROM the window as Dimitri and his brother strode across the rolling green lawn. They’d obviously been out there browbeating Katya once again. She’d asked him about a dozen times to let her talk to his sister, but Dimitri was convinced that she would be more willing to talk to her brothers than to a stranger. Dimitri didn’t understand why Toni believed that Katya would be more willing to talk to a woman . But of course, that was because he was a man. So today Toni was going to sneak out of the house and go talk to Katya on her own.
    She waited until the men disappeared beneath the back stairs. Toni had yet to figure out what was down in the basement, but she had a feeling that was why she could never find any evidence of Dimitri’s business in the house.
    When the coast was clear, Toni quickly left her bedroom and trotted down the back steps. She emerged from the back door of the house already at a dead run. She sprinted for the trees, not stopping until she was safely hidden behind the leafy green wall of vegetation. Finally she paused. Bending at the waist, she breathed deeply until she no longer felt as if she were going to pass out. Then she jogged the rest of the way to Katya’s front door.
    She knocked, banging on the door until she heard footsteps on the other side.
    The door swung open. “I told you, I’m not going to…” Katya paused, looking surprised. “Oh. It’s you.”
    “Yes. Me.” Toni nodded. “You and I are going to talk and you’re going to give me some answers. I’m not one of your brothers. I’m not going to be persuaded that you’re too tired or emotionally vulnerable to tell me what I want to know.”
    “Okay.” Katya crossed her arms over her chest and looked belligerent. “You can ask whatever you want, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to answer.”
    “No?” Toni cocked her head to the side, wondering if she was barking up the wrong tree completely. “You got pregnant for a reason. You can’t tell me you’re so ignorant that you don’t know about birth control. You were sleeping with a married man. That means the baby you’re carrying had a purpose. Maybe for my father. I don’t know. But most certainly for you.”
    There was a shadow of fear lurking in Katya’s dark gaze now. Toni had certainly hit a nerve. Katya gave a curt nod. “So ask.”
    “Did my father ever mention anything about my mother to you?” Toni asked carefully. “Did he say what his intentions were, or why he was being unfaithful to her?”
    “If you think I was the only one he cheated with, you’re horribly naive,” Katya scoffed. “That man couldn’t keep his dick in his pants if his life depended on it.”
    “Yet you’re the only one who has ever been pregnant.”
    “Are you sure?”
    Toni licked her lips, willing to trust her instincts on this one. “Yes.”
    Katya looked surprised. “Why are you so sure?”
    “Because my mother was the one with the money and the connections.”
    Now Katya was biting her lip. “Go talk to your uncles.”
    “What?”
    “Your mother’s brothers.”
    “We never talked to them.” At least Toni didn’t think her mother had kept in touch with her siblings.
    “According to your father, they were giving him trouble,” Katya said slowly. “That’s all I know.”
    “That isn’t all you know,” Toni retorted. “But I’ll let it go for today.”
    “Gee, isn’t that nice?”
    “You’d better be nice if you want anything for that kid.” Toni pointed at the baby bump around Katya’s middle. “You and I both know that you had a purpose for that baby. And whether either of us like it or not, that kid you’re carrying is my half sibling.”
    “Boy,” Katya whispered. “It’s a boy.”
    “Holy shit.” Toni realized that her father had finally gotten exactly what he wanted, although he seemed determined not to claim it. What was going on?
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