I smiled. "So six months minimum in Russian courts, and a few months if action is filed here. That gives us time, time for Patrick to get ready for an Alpha job."

"And time where he doesn't get three billion rubles of his brother's money," Larissa added.

"He really messed it up when he offered the reward the way he did," Charles said. "Without a body, he screwed himself."

Jessie's POV

I'd just had sex for the first time and John had bitten my shoulder, marking and mating me. My body was quivering with power, and tingles were rushing everywhere I touched him. I was floating on clouds of pleasure...