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"This is not the time for that," Asher cut in, looking at Nikolai intently. "You mean it?"
Nikolai returned the look, "I always mean what I say."
"This isn’t because of Angelo, is it?" Asher frowned, noting that Davian stayed out of the conversation, Nikolai had clearly poked a sore spot.
But Davian choosing to step down from his seat as Mafia King hadn’t been surprising. The Alpha had only done the bare necessities to keep things running smoothly, not like Nikolai.
Nikolai had bled for everything he built himself, multiple times.
"It’s not," Nikolai glanced at Davian, "And I shouldn’t have said that," He grumbled, the closest to an apology the other Alpha was ever going to get.
"Face it," Nikolai addressed them both, "I’m the weak link, and now that the High Council is no longer hiding behind pretenses, even if I reclaim my turf, they’ll only keep trying."
"Sooner rather than later, they’ll succeed, and I finally have someone that matters to me... You both have mates, I don’t need to explain that."
The darkness on Davian’s face had cleared up, he had been completely caught off guard by Nikolai’s request. But now that he had sufficiently processed it, he understood. "That’s not the only reason, is it?"
When he had proposed quarterly meetings, he had done it out of duty, but over the months, he had learned more than he would have liked to about the other Mafia Kings, their lives had all changed drastically, they were friends of sort...