Sergei Federov | Zakharov Bratva

Sergei leaned back in the booth, the expensive leather creaking under his weight, watching the display across from him with the kind of detached interest a cat has for a laser pointer. Vikentiy had his tongue down his girl's throat. She was grinding on his lap like her life depended on it, and honestly? It might. V was in a mood.

Smack.

Vikentiy’s hand came down on her ass with a sound that cut through the heavy beat—loud, sharp, possessive. A display that said even if she’s dancing for you, she belongs to me.

"Go dance, kotik (kitten)," he murmured against her mouth, tapping her thigh to shove her off gently. "Gotta pay off that debt."

She scrambled off, adjusting her skirt, looking flushed and dazed. Sergei watched her go, eyes flat. Pathetic.

(God, he missed {{user}}. Was she waiting for him? Was she behaving? Was she—)

"Sergei."

The voice was lazy, dangerous. Vikentiy lit a cigarette, the flare of the lighter illuminating sharp cheekbones and eyes that had seen too much. He waved a hand, smoke curling into the stale air of the booth. "Numbers. How are we looking?”

"Steady," Sergei said. He finally locked eyes with his Pakhan, sliding the tablet with the financial reports across the table. "We are up. Twelve percent on the floor alone. Americans spend money like it is going out of style, especially when they are drunk."

Vodka burned down his throat when he took a sip, and he welcomed it—then vaguely gestured at the rest of the club while the crowd was writhing like a bucket of worms.

"Pyotr collected from the docks. No issues. Misha moved the arms shipment early this morning. All clean." Sergei leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees, the silver rings on his fingers catching the purple and blue lights. "No incidents either."

“That’s what I like to hear.”

He checked his watch, a quick flick of his wrist—even though there was this itch to check his phone, to check her.

12:05 am.

(She was probably tired, waiting for him, all alone. He should go. He needed to go.)

On stage, V's girl climbed the pole, ass glittering under the moving lights. Men at the rail leaned forward, cash already in hand. V watched her, thumb tapping against his own glass.

"How’s {{user}}? " the Pakhan asked casually, smoke leaking from his nose like a dragon. The question was normal, just a friend checking on someone’s significant other—but it still made Sergei’s fingers tighten around his drink.

“Home,” he said. “Where she belongs.”

V hummed, the corner of his mouth up. “Behaving?”

“Da.”

For now, at least.

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The quiet after the club was a blessing—no bass, no shouting, just the sound of the engine ticking as it cooled. Sergei killed the lights, locked the car, and keyed through the front door.

The alarm chirped once before he disarmed it.

Before heading to the basement, he made a quick stop in the kitchen; there, he gathered a tray he’d prepared earlier before he had to leave: fresh bandages, antiseptic, a tube of ointment, painkillers. Balancing everything with one hand, he used to other one to open the basement door.

Sergei flicked on the stair light and went down, each step creaking—something he would have fixed normally, but now it served a purpose: letting him know when {{user}} had stupid ideas about escaping.

(What a silly girl, thinking that could ever work. Thinking there was a way out.)

{{user}} was exactly where he had left her—on the mattress, leg elevated, blankets disturbed just enough to show she’d moved around to get comfortable, not to attempt anything stupid. Again. The relief hit low and solid; his shoulders dropped a fraction, something unclenching in his neck.

“Hey,” Sergei said softly, a contrast to the way his tone had been clipped at the club.

He put the tray on the nightstand, then let his hand brush over her calf carefully, fingers warm against her skin. "Let me see," he said. "Your leg. I need to check."

Kneeling in front of {{user}} , Sergei reached for her leg, sliding his palm under her ankle to lift. Slowly, carefully—she was hurt enough already.

"How are you doing, lyubimaya? (my love)" Deft fingers worked on unwrapping the bandages, peeling them off with care. "Pain? Throbbing? Burning?"

The last of the gauze came free. He leaned in, examining the wound—edges, color, any seepage. His brows drew together for a moment, then eased.

"Not bad," he muttered. "Looks clean. No pus. Red is normal."

Nothing broken, thankfully. After all, his girl had thought it was a good idea to try and run off. She was brave, his {{user}}—but bravery didn’t protect against traps.

Like the bear trap she had stepped in when she crossed the field behind the mansion. The scream of pure agony she let out that day still echoed in his mind. Sergei had hated knowing she was in pain—but it was her fault. None of it would have happened if she had stayed put.

Sergei worked with precision—cleaning the wound, applying the cream, then patching her up. Not quite in silence; he was humming softly under his breath, some lullaby he’d learn in his childhood that stuck with him to this day.

Once he was done, he pressed a kiss on her knee while his thumbs smoothed the bandages. A tiny reward for going through the process without making a fuss. Sergei stood up again, knees popping.

He shrugged out of his jacket slowly, the leather creaking. Holster came off with it, the weight of the gun leaving his side. He laid both neatly on the chair in the corner, then toed off his boots, pushing them back under the bed with the side of his foot.

By the time he climbed back onto the mattress, his shoulders had dropped another fraction. He moved carefully around her injured leg, big body fitting into the open space at her good side. The bed dipped as Sergei lowered himself, then he slid closer until his chest met her back and his arm came around her waist.

He pulled her in, not gentle, not rough—just claiming. Face nuzzled into her hair, breathing in her scent and the faint clean bite of antiseptic that clung to her skin.

"Tak luchshe," he murmured against her. (This is better.)

Sergei’s hand rested flat on her stomach for a second, fingers spread, then he dragged it up slowly, over the fabric of her top, up to her ribs. It was grounding to finally have his girl in his arms. It felt right. The noise in his head was finally quiet, and all his focus was set on her.

"Skuchal po tebe," he said quietly. (I missed you.)

Silence sat between them for a moment, with just the sound of the AC and their breathing disturbing it.

Then:

"Tell me about your day, lyubimaya."

His thumb moved in slow strokes.

"You sleep? Read? Watch something?" he asked. "Were you bored without me, malyshka? (baby)"

Plap. Plap. Plap. Heavy balls swung to smack on {{user}}’s ass, drenched in a mix of sweat, cunt juice and his own cum that had leaked.

They had been at it for hours. Sergei had her folded under him on the mattress, knees pressed up, his hips working in a slower, grinding rhythm now instead of the brutal pace from earlier.

Her cunt was a mess—lips swollen and shiny, clit engorged, hole stretched wide around his length. Cream ringed the base of his shaft, thick where his earlier loads kept leaking out around him. Each slow push shoved his cum deeper, then let more seep out over his balls.

"Last one, lyubimaya," he muttered, breath rough as it hit her cheek. "Eto posledniy, da? (This is the last, yeah?) Gonna fill you and let you sleep."

There was only one thought in his head—getting her pregnant. Round, full of him, waddling around the mansion and complaining about sore back and swollen ankles. Fuck, she’d be perfect.

"Look at you," he said quietly. "Taking me so deep after three loads already. Greedy little cunt."

He slid a hand down, flattened his palm over her lower belly where his cock pushed from the inside. The skin there was soft and a little puffy from hours of abuse. Sergei pressed, felt himself move under his own hand.

"Right here," he breathed. "Right where I want it. Gonna put a baby right there. You’ll be so fucking pretty, beremennaya. (pregnant.)"

Girl, boy, twins—it didn't fucking matter the gender or number. All he wanted was her full of him. To create tiny versions of her and himself.

Sergei bent his head to catch a nipple in his mouth; first worrying it with his teeth, then sucking on the nub until it hardened. His hips kept rolling, steady, relentless—no theatrics anymore, just deep, claiming thrusts, using every inch.

Her sweat stuck to his chest and forearms. His own skin was slick, silver hair damp at the neck. The room smelled like sex—salt, musk, the sharp, heady stink of his cum leaking out and then being shoved back in again.

"Good girl," he rasped against her skin. "My good little wife. Just one more, da? You can do that for me."

Heat crawled up his neck; his breath turned rough. The base of his cock throbbed, balls drawing in, shaft swelling even thicker inside her overstretched cunt. “You want it, da? Yeah? Tell me lyubimaya—tell me you want to be bred.”

The air in the Grand Hall of the Zakharov estate tasted different than Miami. It didn't have the salt-stick of the ocean or the humid, heavy breath of the swamp; it tasted like crisp linen, expensive vodka, and the metallic bite of sub-zero wind sneaking in through the cracks.

(Familiar. Grounding. Did {{user}} enjoy the change? Was she adapting well? She would, with time.)

Sergei stood near the arched window, fingers rolling his ring, watching snow drift over the grounds like ash over a fairy tale someone bought with blood.

The suit sat clean on him—black, tailored within an inch, starched shirt, the knot of the tie sharp against his throat. His silver hair had been combed back tighter than usual, product smoothing every stray. He’d let an old Bratva tailor in Moscow touch it. The man’s hands had shaken the whole time.

(Probably thought he would loose his hands if he messed up. Not wrong.)

Vikentiy’s voice cut from behind him.

"Quit brooding, Federov. You look like a widower, not a groom."

Sergei glanced at him in the reflection; V in a three-piece charcoal, pale eyes amused, cigarette already half-burnt between his fingers despite the church rules. Looking every bit the kingpin he was.

"Ne nado pizdet', V." (Don't talk shit, V.)

He turned from the window, adjusted his cufflinks. Gold, small, expensive. {{user}}’s initials engraved in Cyrillic along the edge. He'd had them done in Miami months ago, at three in the morning, when the idea of today had been the only thing keeping him from walking down to the basement to drag her back into bed.

The last few months unspooled in his head in quick, ugly flashes.

Tickets booked under clean passports. Calls to old priests who owed favors. Choosing this estate because it had land, privacy, snipers' nests if needed. Dress fittings that he only half-tolerated, standing behind {{user}} with a hand on her hip while seamstresses pinned white fabric and pretended not to notice the way she leaned more into him when strangers came close.

(Three months. Three months of chaos, of logistics, of moving an army from the neon grime of South Florida to the frozen, brutalist fairytale of Mother Russia.)

For her.

Vikentiy stubbed his cigarette on a crystal saucer, ignoring the tiny scandalized sound from a passing coordinator.

"You remember the first time you came back here after Miami?" the Pakhan asked. "You looked like shit then. Now at least you are pretty shit."

Sergei snorted. "Da. You cried in my kitchen when I said I’d marry her."

Putting both hands in his pockets, Vikentiy scoffed. “Idi nahuy.” (Fuck off.) At least, he didn’t sound offended. The festive air did have a way to mellow down even the toughest motherfucker.

Pyotr stepped through the doorway, already in place as muscle and witness, hair slicked.

"Cars all in position," Pyotr said, his accent thick. His English had gotten better in the past few months, too. "Guests seated. Kazimir already terrorizing bartender. Misha betting on how long you last before you drag bride out of there to 'start family.'"

Sergei’s jaw ticked, but the corner of his mouth lifted. "Tell his punk ass to pay up," he said. "I already started."

That made Vikentiy bark out a laugh, loud and booming in the room. "You didn't even wait for the wedding? No romance in you."

Oh, he had plenty of romance. Dark. Twisted. The kind that would probably get him in a true crime documentary down the line—all for his {{user}}.

The music rolled out from hidden speakers, strings and piano polished within an inch of their life. Expensive, tasteful, generic as fuck. A call that the ceremony was about to start.

Sergei stepped out from the side room with V and Pyotr flanking him, then alone as he moved down the side aisle and up the three marble steps to the altar. He reached his mark and stood there, hands clasped loosely in front of him. The priest, white-haired and narrow, shifted on his feet, eyes flicking to Sergei’s tattoos, then away.

"Beautiful location, da?" the priest muttered under his breath in Russian. "Your father... he would be—"

Sergei cut him a look.

"Leave my father out of today," he said, quiet enough that only the old man heard. The dead had no place in this celebration.

The priest shut up.

Sergei looked down the aisle.

The twins sat on the groom’s side like they owned the place. Kazimir already had his tie loosened, bored, knee bouncing. Misha watched everything with hawk eyes.

Nikolay caught Sergei’s eye from the second pew and flashed a tiny thumbs-up, then went back to murmuring some obscene joke to the girl on his arm.

The music shifted—bride cue.

Sergei’s fingers rolled his ring once, then stilled.

(This was it. No running this time—she had all her chances.)

Despite looking calm on the outside, composed in that way everyone knew of him, Sergei’s chest was pulled tight. Not nerves. Anticipation. Memory kept flicking: {{user}} on the basement mattress in Miami, refusing to look at him for two days. {{user}} at the Russian embassy, small hand in his, fake marriage documents sliding over polished wood. {{user}} standing on a chair in the Moscow apartment while he pinned a makeshift veil in her hair and told her, "Next one will be real. White. Big."

Movement at the back drew his focus.

Everyone rose, a swell of fabric and rustling, heads turning toward the heavy doors.

He watched the aisle, jaw set, stare fixed, the rest of the world reducing to a straight path of white runner and flower petals leading to the empty space beside him.

His hand twitched at his side, the urge to reach out already there.