Unexpected Encounter: A Second Chance at Love

[Elisberg City]

[Joshua's Place]

Staring at the man who had unexpectedly showed up in his place, Joshua asked, "What are you going here?"

"Nice place you have got here." Igor ignored his question. "You seem to have settled here well. Did you buy this place while you were working for me?"

"Does it matter?" Joshua scoffed. He knew things were about to get messy when Igor showed up at his doorstep all of a sudden.

"No, even if you bought it with my money, you had earned it." Igor smiled and sat down on the couch. "How do you think your parents will feel when they find out what you used to do?"

Joshua helplessly shook his head and chuckled, "Are you trying to threaten me?"

"Not really," he shrugged his shoulders. "Why would I threaten you?"

Joshua did not say anything. He kept glaring at his former boss while he did the same.

The tension between them was increasing by every second.

When he left Igor's side, Joshua knew he would come looking for him. He knew way too much about all the dirty work Igor was involved in.

If he made up his mind to sell the information to his enemies, Igor would be done for good. But he had no intention of doing that.

Joshua wasn't selling his information to his enemies but to his own brother, Samuel. But Igor didn't know that.

"So what are your plans now?" He smiled. "Are you planning to open a restaurant or something?"

"Well, after working for you, a restaurant doesn't sound bad as a retirement plan."

"Retirement? Seriously?" Igor sighed and helplessly shook his head. "And here I thought you would want to work with your cousin brother-in-law."

"I have no such plans." Joshua wasn't lying. He had no plans of working for or with Andrew. He already had a deal and alliance with Samuel.

Igor stared at him for a while before getting up. "Alright then. I was in the city so I thought I should check on my old employee as well."
"You know the way out."

"Joshua, now that you are not working for me, I hope you will not go sniffing around my enemies," Igor stated. "Since you have worked for me, you know what kind of man I am."

"Are you scared?" Joshua chuckled. "Scared that I'll expose your little secrets?"

Igor's expression darkened. "You are alive only because I want you to live. You do realise that, right?"

Before Joshua could answer, he added, "Don't do something that will force me to change my mind."

"Why don't you just kill me?" When Igor stopped in his tracks, he smirked, "Will it not be easier for you?"

With the power Igor held, he could easily get him killed. In fact, when he left Igors side he had expected Igor to shoot him right between his eyes but he was surprised when he just let him walk away.

"Hmm, of course it will be easy," Igor sighed. "But I don't want to. Not yet at least." He then walked out of the apartment.

"Sly bastard," Joshua muttered before calling Samuel to give him a heads up about Igor's arrival in the city. They were expecting him but not so soon. His sudden arrival meant that he had got a whiff of something.

They had no choice but to hasten their plans of dragging Igor down soon.

...

[Moscow, Russia]

pαпdα Йᴏνê|,сòМ [Volkov Household]

"Andrew—"

Without taking his eyes off the screen, he replied, "Rachael—"

Turning towards her husband who was sitting on the couch, working on his laptop, she asked, "What are your thoughts about us having a baby?"

Taken aback by her sudden question, he quickly closed his laptop. "Why are you suddenly asking me that?"

"I—"

"A-Are you pregnant?" He nervously looked at her. The mere thought of it made his face turn pale.

"No, but it's good to know where you stand in the whole baby thing," she chuckled before pulling up the quilt and closing her eyes.

She smiled and opened her eyes when she felt a warm pair of hands around her waist.

"I am not against having a baby." He kissed the top of her head. "I do want us to have one but not yet. I just feel I am not ready to be a father yet, you know?"


Pausing for a while, he added, "I think I would suck at it."

"What? No you wouldn't." She cupped his cheeks. "I think you will make a wonderful father. The one who spoils their kids, you know, that type."

"Oh if we have a daughter, she is going to be so spoiled but if it's a son, I have to train him well so that he can protect you and our daughter whenever I am not around."

"Two kids, really?" She chuckled. "I think one should be enough."

Andrew shook his head. "If we are having babies, we are going to have a bunch of them."

"A bunch?" Rachael widened her eyes in shock. "Are you serious?"

"I mean, it depends on how many you are willing to push out."

"Maybe three."

"Maximum four." He grinned and pressed his lips against hers.

Rachael chuckled and placed her hand on his chest. "Alright now, I will have to stop you right there Mr. Collins."

"Why?" he frowned, clearly disappointed.

"I have to go out with Elsa and Kate early tomorrow, I need to sleep."

"They are taking you site seeing, right?" She nodded. "I wish I could come but I have this meeting—"

"That's okay." She snuggled closer. "You can take me out later. Maybe on a date?"

"I would love to take you on a date."

Rachael sighed and placed her head on his chest. "Earlier you were telling me something about Janet." They couldn't finish their conversation as Daniel had to use the study room.

"You really want to know?" She nodded. "I don't know how to say it in a better way but—three years ago, she was raped."

"What?" Rachael gasped. "Thats—"

"I know but that isn't the most terrible part," Andrew remarked. "She was raped by her father and brother."

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