Chapter THIRTY-FIVE

JOSEF

I sat on the private jet, staring at my phone and the last text Meredith had sent me. It was a picture.

Of her.

My sexy, sweet, gorgeous wife.

She’d been laying down on our bed, her red hair billowing out behind her like a crimson pirate sail on a sea of dusky rose-colored silk when I took the photo.

After our Vegas wedding, I had the cleaning service replace all the sheets with different shades of pink.

Little Red loved them. And I loved her, so making her happy was a priority.

I’d sleep on sheets with fucking unicorns on them if she wanted me to.

She’d send me the picture when I texted her, I’d arrived at the private airport to meet Adrik and Marat for an unexpected business trip.

Since I was a major shareholder in Volkov Industries, any disruptions in the mining business affected me too.

This one should be easy enough. A new political party was in power in the small east African country where one of the rare earth metal mines was located.