Igor
I have started doing my job again, lying in bed without any work was like hell for me. Since becoming Caesar’s bodyguard, I have always worked nonstop and these few weeks on bed rest was getting on my nerves…
“Sir, we have loaded the whole consignment” Right now, I was in one of the warehouses.
“Have you checked everything?”
“Yes sir” I nodded and he left. Then, I saw all the 5 trucks going out with 3 of our cars behind them.
Since childhood I have known everything about Mikhailov’s, they trust me like their own. I still remember that day, when I was 7yr old…
Flashback
“Come Igor let’s play” Caesar barged into my room like always.
“What do you wanna play?” I kept my book aside and gave full attention to him.
“Hmm…” He just stood there and kept on thinking but I obviously knew the answer.
“Football” ‘Ofcourse’ I thought, this is Caesar’s favourite game and he still takes minutes to think so that the other person can’t refuse him.
“Okayyy” And we both left my room.
The moment we walked in the backyard, I saw Rose with 1 yr old Alexei in her arms.
“Hey mom” We both said together. (Yes, at that time Igor didn’t know that Mikhailov’s are not his real family. For him, Caesar and he were twins.)
“Hey son’s, what are you playing?”
“Football” Caesar yelled and went to get his ball. While I sat with mom on the swing and played with Alexei.
“I love you all” Mom said and kissed my forehead and then Alexei’s.
“Me?” Caesar came with hands on his waist and a pout on his face.
“You too” She kissed his forehead also.
Then, we both started playing. It was a normal day for us until…
“Why are you here?” Dad screamed from inside the house and we all ran there.
The second we stepped inside, an old man was standing in front of our furious dad.
“Can’t I come to see my son?”
“I am not your son”.
“You can’t deny it, how much ever you say” He said with a smile.
“What do you want dad?”
“Now that’s my son” And patted his shoulder.
“It’s been years since I last saw you, I wanna meet my grandsons”.
His eyes immediately landed on us but mom put us behind her and stood in front of us like a shield.
“Aww, he is so handsome” He walked towards Caesar.
“Rozlina” Dad said mom’s name when she didn’t buldge away from us.
“Let him Roz” Mom looked at him with a wide eyes and then walked away from us.
“Come here son” The person called Caesar, who slowly walked towards him.
“I am your grandpa” He caressed his face. When Caesar didn’t say anything he hugged him.
“I have brought gifts for you” And asked one of the maid to get it from his car.
“This is your gift” After getting a gift Caesar smiled at him.
“Thank you grandpa…and Igor’s gift?” He pointed towards me.
“He is not my family” The man said in a rude way and didn’t glance my way for even a second.
“DAD?” The moment he said those words father screamed at him.
“No! He is my brother” Caesar shouted and threw his gift away.
“Igor is not your brother, he is not even a part of our family”.
“Leave my house” Dad shoved him away from Caesar.
“You should tell your son the truth” He said before leaving the house.
Since that man left I have locked myself in my room and Caesar is kept on banging on the door.
“Igor pls open, I want to play with you” He was continuously saying this.
“Caesar”.
“Mom-dad, he is not opening the door. Tell him, man was saying wrong. He is my brother” Caesar was crying loudly.
“Shhh, we’ll talk to him, you go to your room and don’t cry. He’ll come to you in a minute” Mom coaxed him and he went away.
“Igor pls open the door” Mom said but I sat still on my bed.
“Son if you love us, pls open it” I heard dad’s voice the next second and opened the door.
I walked back towards my bed and mom-dad sat beside me on each side.
“Is it true?” Tears fell from my eyes and mom hugged me right away.
After few minutes they told me everything about my parents and what happened to them.
“But we still love you Igor” Dad kissed my forehead.
“You will never be apart from us” Mom hugged me tightly. For a few minutes I just cried in her arms.
“You will never leave me?” I asked while sobbing hard.
“Never” And those words were kept until now.
At dinner we all sat together but I still haven’t talked to Caesar.
“You are okay?” He asked as soon as he sat beside me and I just nodded.
“Caesar we will talk after dinner” Mom said and he started eating his food.
After dinner mom-dad told everything to Caesar because next day he was trying to console me and assuring that he will never leave me. Since that day, we all got closer but I asked them that if I can call them Rose and Lion instead of mom-dad and they agreed. They also gave me a photo of my parents.
After 7 years (15yr old), we also got to know about what work actually Mikhailov’s do. They are one of the biggest mafia group ‘Black Rose gang’ in the world. They have hotels, casinos, clubs and business shares as a front but from behind they deal with guns, illegal gambling, loan sharking and have some connections in politics as well. At that time we didn’t understand everything but as time went by we got involved in it.
And when the time came, Lion gave power to Caesar (19yr old). But in those years only Caesar and I got separated from each other, without any reason which I didn’t know. But the day when he became the head…
“Now that you are the head of the Black Rose gang, so choose your top people carefully” Everyone was standing in Lion’s office which was now Caesar’s.
“Yes dad” His voice has also become more manly now.
He was sitting on the chair while Rose and I sat on one of the couch with Lion.
“I want Akim as my bodyguard” He looked at every person’s portfolio first.
“Okay, anything else?”
“No” Lion nodded and we all three started walking outside.
“Igor…” Caesar stopped me but Rose-Lion went.
“Will you be my bodyguard?”
“Isn’t Akim that?”
“Personal bodyguard, my right hand man” He said while looking directly at me.
“I will” I said without thinking because I know what he is getting himself into from now and I always wanted to protect him like a family.
Flashback ends
From that day, Caesar worked hard to get where he is now and became the Mafia King.
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