by K. J. Dahlen
NICKY
Book Ten
Bratva Blood Brothers
K.J. Dahlen
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K.J. Dahlen
NICKY
Book Ten
Bratva Blood Brothers Series
Copyright © 2019
Editor: Leanore Elliott
Book Design & Cover: Wicked Muse
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
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Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
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NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
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Books for 2019/2020
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Book 7: Hound
Book 8: Dante
Book 9: Iceman-
Book 10: The Kids
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Book Five- Under his protection- Jinx
Book Six- Shadow
Book Seven- Cooper
Book Eight- Bender
Bratva Blood Brothers
Kosta Book Eight 1/15
Nikoli Nine 3/16
Nicky Book Ten
Sergi Book Eleven
Misha Twelve
Timor Felix Book Thirteen
Kirill Fourteen
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Book Two—Hades
Book Three-—Aries
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Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
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Creed’s Return A Full Novel 1-11-19
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Daniel
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Thor
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Book Two Ivan
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Book Four Andrey
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Book Six- Matvey
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Chapter One
The room was lit only by the dim light of the computer monitor. Shadows and a dark void hid the rest of the apartment from sight. But that was okay with the figure behind the keyboard. No one was supposed to know where she was. She was better protected that way.
The front door was barricaded and there was very little furniture in the small apartment. She made do with what little she had. She was sitting on the floor working her computer and she’d been so focused on her task she never noticed that night had moved in.
Finishing her task, she finally sat back and watched as her program began its own work. She had been tunneling into a banking software system. It had been a challenge, and this was her fifth try to get in. Every other time she had been successfully block and kicked out.
But she hadn’t given up on her quest. She hated this part of what she did, but in this instance, she didn’t have a choice. She had to get in. Sheer terror waited for her if she failed. As she sat back, she realized her whole body hurt.
Her back and shoulders ached with pain and she couldn’t move her legs. They had been locked in the same position for too long again. She brought her hands up to her face to rub the tiredness from her eyes then hissed at pain from the bruises that were almost a week old on her face. Her fingers gently touched her pale skin and she winced. The pain was still as fresh for her as it had been when he’d found her, six days ago.
She cursed the day she met her particular boogey man. One tiny little slipup six months ago and it had allowed this bastard into her world. Life hadn’t ever been easy for her from day one. Her own mother had been horrified by her appearance, not that it had been her fault but the people would look at her and then they would ignore her because of her appearance.
Growing up, it was worse. She hadn’t known then how to protect herself. Then she touched the bruises on her face and thought she still didn’t know how to protect herself. One thing life had taught her though was how to hide from the rest of the world.
She hid behind the anonymity of the cyber world. She had become a hacker at the age of twelve and by the age of fourteen she was being paid to change the grades of her classmates. School wasn’t easy for her, so she home schooled herself. Being abandoned at birth by the one woman who was supposed to love her, she’d been turned over to the nuns at St. Felix church.
They named her and cared for her but they never loved her. Even they treated her like a freak because of her appearance. Mostly, they left her alone and she would hide in a forgotten set of rooms in the nunnery. Her one and saving grace were the books in the library as they’d allowed her to read. The nuns taught her to read when she was four; after they found out, she was very intelligent. She would sit back to watch and learn everything she could. Being left alone so much, she would watch as the world around her expanded. She didn’t want to be left behind so she taught herself. She realized early in life that if she wanted to learn something, she should just go for it. If no one wanted to teach her, there were other ways for her to find out what she wanted to know.
When she was ten they made her go to school for the first time and that had been so hard for her. She had outgrown everything they could teach her and the nuns thought she would do better in a public forum. She’d never seen so many kids her own age and she hoped she would meet someone who wouldn’t turn away from her in disgust.
But that never happened. She was so far ahead of her studies that she never fit in anywhere. The older kids hated her because she was smarter than they were and they considered her a freak. The kids her own age didn’t like her because she was so much different than they were, they also considered her a freak. That was when she discovered the cyber world and it opened her eyes to the power of knowledge.
Her quick mind was eager to know everything she could learn. She figured out how things worked quickly and quietly. She thought back to how many times she’d hid inside the school to use the computers at night when was no one else was around.
She was quick to learn how to get through the locks the school had on their system and at the age of twelve
, she got into her first secure company. She hadn’t done anything once she was inside but the fact she’d gotten through their security boosted her own self-worth.
It took them three days to narrow down where the breech had come from but by then she had erased any sign that a breech had taken place. The computer experts they brought in couldn’t find her intrusion at all.
This gave her the courage to do it again. The next time, she was more careful. When she was out again and shut down her computer, she finally realized just how easy she could do some serious damage with skills.
In one way, she could go into any system and wreak some major damage but on the other hand she could do some major damage and that wasn’t how she was raised. She also realized how much trouble she could get herself into.
Then her skills were found out and an older student who liked to bully her found out she could break into the school’s computer system. He had her change his grades, so he could continue to play football. She didn’t want to do it at first but he’d made her life a living hell.
Then he made her change his friend’s grades but this time he paid her. Then the other students began paying her for doing their homework and other school work. For the next four months, she’d earned a couple thousand dollars.
She knew she should stop what she was doing, as it wasn’t right. Then she witnessed something she never should have seen. She was leaving the school late one night and walking through the woods on the way back to her room at the nunnery and she saw someone get shot.
Not just anyone either. The man who was killed was the Mayor of their town. Jamison Dennoff. All of the people in Norwich, New York knew the man was no good but they were too afraid of him not to keep him in office. He’d been mayor for fifteen years and while he used his office for some good that good never made it to the people who worked to support him. He and his friends had lined their own pockets with funds designed to help the regular people. For a brief moment, the moon shone bright enough for her to see the face of the man who killed Jamison. She would never forget his face.
The pure hate in his eyes burned in her memory and she would never forget what he did next. Jamison was laying on the ground barely breathing but from where she was standing, she could see he was still alive. She moved to hide herself from being seen but she couldn’t take her eyes off of what was happening in front of her.
The man still standing knelt down and spoke quietly to the mayor bleeding out on the ground. Then he reached into his pocket and drew out a flask. Opening the flask, he took a deep drink of the liquor then poured what was left on the downed man. Jamison flinched s the liquor splashed on his face. The man emptied the flask all over him then he got to his feet and moved a step or two away. Reaching back into his pocket he brought out a cigarette lighter. When he lit it, she could see the hateful but glee filled glow in his eyes briefly, before he tossed the lighter at the other man.
Flames quickly caught and soon Jamison was screaming as the flames spread and his skin burned. She watched in absolute horror as the man standing there allowed Jamison to burn to death. His screams began to fade away and when the flames died down, the other man turned and walked away.
She couldn’t move for a long time, still in shock at what she’d seen. Finally, she got up and ran all the way back to where she was staying. The halls of the nunnery were silent and she kicked off her shoes as she walked down to her bedroom.
Closing her door quietly, she sat down on the bed and her mind was haunted by what she’d just witnessed. She knew in that moment, she couldn’t stay here anymore. She began packing a small duffle bag, taking with her only what she couldn’t live without. But before she left, she went down to Mother Superiors’ office. She broke into the filing cabinet and searched for her file. She had always wondered who her mother was and before she left town, she wanted her birth certificate. The nuns at St Felix had always told her they couldn’t give that information to her but she wanted to know who’d taken one look at her child then turned her back on her. She grabbed the file and took off without reading it. She had no idea where she was going but she knew if the killer ever found out what she’d seen, she wouldn’t be safe. Not even the walls of the nunnery would protect her.
She had one more stop before she left town... the one place that had become her second home. She would need a computer and while she felt bad about stealing one that was one pain she could live with.
She slipped out as quietly as she’d slipped in. No one had heard her either time. Making her way back to the school was nerve wracking but she finally got there. Slipping in and out again was easy, then she had a decision to make, where would she go?
She shook her head and brought herself back to the present. That night had changed her life so much that she barely recognized the life she was living now. It had been seven years ago. And she’d been ok right up until six months ago when she’d run into the man she only had nightmares about.
Six months ago, she had stayed online a few minutes too long without covering her back. That two minute window had allowed him to trace her. Within hours, he was kicking in her door and her own hell began—a hell that was now her every breathing moment.
She’d tried to escape his grasp twice now and both times, he found her again. The last time he found her, he beat her so badly, she couldn’t move for several days.
Then he made a mistake by thinking she was down and out... that she had learned her lesson. He had her breaking into a man’s bank accounts and taking whatever she could. He talked about hating this man, Nikoli with every fiber of his being. She took note of his eyes when he would speak of this Nikoli and she saw for herself that this man Z, as he introduced himself, had no soul.
He’d told her that he wanted to ruin this Nikoli, he wanted everything this man had, and he wouldn’t stop until he was left with nothing. He had ranted for hours about how he hated him.
When she left his place six days ago, she only took what she could carry. That meant only her laptop and a small notebook she’d kept secret. She couldn’t let Z find that. Then when she got to where she was presently hiding, she built a special safety net that she was sure no one would break.
But that had changed in the past four days. Four days ago, she noticed someone lurking in the background and that someone was getting closer to hacking her system. This unknown hacker was good but she was better and so far, she had been able to stop him cold.
Just as she sat back to rest, her back she noticed something flash on her screen. She leaned forward again, and saw her hacker was back. She had to grin as her fingers flew over the keyboard and they went head to head yet again.
The next thirty minutes were intense as she battled whoever this was. He kept trying to break down her firewalls and gain access to her system. They battled back and forth and finally, she blocked him.
Then just for shits and giggles, she back tracked the IP address. She didn’t recognize the name the account belonged to but if this hacker had any skills maybe he would help her. She left him a secret symbol, then backed out and created a secret chat room where they could possibly meet if he was as smart as she figured he was.
Chapter Two
Nicky Silvanic swore a blue streak as he battled an unknown hacker online. This was the same hacker he’d been battling for the last six months. The same one who’d been breaking in and messing around his father’s accounts. This hacker had been stealing not only money but personal information. He had put extra protection on the Bratva account his father was in charge of and so far, those hadn’t been touched but his father had lost some money and now, his personal information was out there, for whoever wanted to get their hands on it.
Nicky come so close and then the hacker began battling him with new safeguards and tougher firewalls. He’d get one down and he’d put another in place. Finally, after thirty minutes, he’d been blocked yet again.
While looking over the battle, he found something he’d missed the first time. Narrowing his eyes at t
he symbol in the lower corner of his screen he debated whether he should click on it or not. He didn’t know this hacker at all. He was good but this hacker was better and he knew it.
He was running the risk of getting a virus or worse, corrupting the entire system if he clicked on it. He got up and walked away for a moment. He went out to his kitchen and grabbed a beer. Going back to the computer, he decided to click on the symbol.
When he was transferred to a secret chatroom, Nicky had been surprised. He logged in and when he was there, he found a simple word. Hello.
What the hell? Hello? Nicky studied the chatroom for any hidden threats but didn’t find any. He responded to the greeting and waited for the hacker to respond.
When the hacker came back, they told him there was someone out there who hated him. They were being forced to do what they did. He or she also told him all the money that was missing was being held by them in a safe place and that the info taken, was also safe. Only this hacker knew where it was.
Nicky asked this mysterious hacker to prove it. For a long time, the hacker didn’t respond. He was about to give up when they finally got back to him. When they did, he was shocked. The hacker had sent him a message, “To get the information you require you have to find me. I’ve got the information you require but the boogey man is out there looking for me too. Please help me.”
Nicky sat there for a long time. This wasn’t at all what he’d assumed was going on with his father’s accounts. Could he believe this story from a faceless, nameless hacker? He printed message off before he closed out of the chatroom. He couldn’t believe the hacker had the gall to ask for his help. After what he’d done to his father Nicky couldn’t believe, they were asking him for help. And—he couldn’t believe he was even thinking about helping whoever this was.
Who was the boogey man the hacker spoke of? Who talked like that anyway? No one Nicky knew...unless this hacker was only a kid... was that even possible?
His phone rang and he picked it up without looking at the caller ID. “Hello?”