Crash into Me: A BWWM Russian Billionaire Romance Read Free Page A

was lovely. You loved hearing about Father running about naked and refusing to eat his vegetables, didn’t you?”
    “Yeah, I did. But I can understand how hearing that our father was human messes with your whole android thing, Vera. Must be hard to find out that he was actually a person because then we have to wonder where you came from.”
    It wasn’t a nice thing to say by any stretch of the imagination, but to be honest, Alexei was tired. He was sad and he was sick of his mother’s antics. Of course she was making this whole thing about her and her feelings, even though she was hardly the only one of them who had lost someone.
    Vera pursed her lips angrily and then shook her head. “Just stay here,” she said. “I’ll go find Mother and speak to her.”
    And then she was striding off, leaving Alexei where he was standing. He cracked his knuckles in irritation and then sighed. Instead of leaving like he had considered, he shook his head and went back to the table, giving a winning smile to his aunts. “So, tell me more about Father as a kid.”
     
    He didn’t stick around for much longer after that. Vera and his mother were probably holed up somewhere cursing his name and talking about how disrespectful he was, so he was perfectly fine with leaving. He hugged each of his aunts before he went, thanking them for the stories and for taking charge in the planning of the funeral in the first place.
    “I hope we didn’t upset your mother too much,” Leda said, looking concerned.
    Alexei shook his head. “It’s fine, I promise. This is just how she is.”
    From the church, he went back to his place and took a long shower, trying to shake the feelings he was having. There had never been any of that light heartedness that his aunts had displayed when he was growing up. If either he or his sister had run away from their lessons, there would have been hell to pay when their parents found out.
    On the one hand, it was nice to know that his father hadn’t always been the strict task master that he was as an adult, but on the other, Alexei was fiercely jealous that his father had been able to have a childhood.
    He sighed and finished his shower before collapsing into bed. What he needed now was a long nap and then to go out. He needed to get his mother’s voice out of his head and to stop thinking about how much his sister disliked him and how much he missed his father even though they had never really had a relationship that one would call warm.
    Thinking about that wasn’t going to make anything better, so he punched his pillow and sighed, letting the warmth of the day and his own exhaustion send him to sleep for a few hours.
     
    It was nearly dark when he woke up again, and that was perfect. Alexei had time to grab a bite to eat for dinner and then get dressed and decide where he wanted to go. He wanted to drink, he knew that much, but he was also very interested in having some company, so he took that into account and chose his club accordingly.
    Spectre was one of those hipster type places that served expensive alcohol and had an outlandish cover charge, but it was always packed and that was what Alexei was looking for at the moment. It was nothing for him to hand over his money at the door, and the he just arched an eyebrow when the bouncer gave him a once over.
    He already knew from his clothes and posture that the bouncer would be able to tell he belonged there. Alexei could only imagine that since he didn’t seem to be checking IDs at the door, he was checking for something else, and he stood straight backed and proud and let the man look.
    After a few seconds he was being waved inside, and he nodded to the bouncer and made his way in.
    It was a nice place, that was for certain. Carpeted in certain areas, hardwood floors in others, sectioned off to designate places that were for sitting and drinking from the places that were meant strictly for dancing. The music had a deep, thrumming beat, and it sounded