The final installment in the A Baby For Them trilogy, A Baby for the Bratva by Chloe Kent! Now, this one is only slightly different from the last two books, but not quite. The whole series is just copy & paste with different skins, essentially. The series isn't bad, but it did become predictable after the first book with Scarlet. Also, all the main girls' names start with the letter "s," just something I picked up while reading.
Starla Anderson is our main girl for this journey. She is an orphan living in an orphanage in Russia. She had come to Russia some years ago with her mother and soon enough her mother perished in a fire at their hotel. While the fire was happening, Starla was at the orphanage with Sister Alena, her mother's best friend, meeting girls her age and making friends. Once news got back to her, it was clear that she was stuck in Russia indefinitely...
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Starla has been in Russia for about five years now. She understands and can speak Russian but chooses not to as an "up yours" to Russia, the country in which her mother died in and the one she is stuck in. Starla is an aspiring seamstress living in the orphanage at the tender age of twenty one. One night, she is woken up by Sister Matrina to get dressed and packed because the bratva were there and wanted a girl to impregnate.
Starla was appalled and demanded payment for use of her body, especially since she wasn't going to be able to sew dresses anymore. The money was all going towards fixing up the orphanage since they were really low on money. The three men insinuated a threaten to take another girl, telling Sister Nadya to go get some other girls. Starla couldn't let them take one of the others and so conceded to them.
They had a medical examine done right in Sister Nadya's office and were then on their way to a far cabin in the middle of the snow. Starla had come to learn of their names: Dimitry, Mikhail, and Nikolay Bychkov, the heads of the Bychkov Bratva. It is the Bychkov Bratva way for three men to share the same wife, as was explained to Starla because she thought she only had to be impregnated by one of them. In retrospect, she was to be shared between the three of them. Also, they needed to have a baby first to continue being the heads of their clan, otherwise it could go to their cousin who already has a wife and is in the lead.
They had some rocky head butting while in the cabin, but soon enough the Prababushka, the boy's grandmother, have summoned them all to the main headquarters of their bratva. Soon enough, Starla has met the Prababushka and many others, including the cousin that they fear the leadership will be passed to. While spending time there, Starla becomes close with some of the family until a cousin comes back and tries to kill her!
It turns out that Starla is Oleg Gorky's daughter! Oleg Gorsky is a man who kidnapped and scarred up Nikolay in his youth in front of a crowd. The other two Bychkov boys were ready to start a war while their fathers signed a treaty to not touch Gorky to get Nikolay back. Ever since then, Oleg Gorky was the most hated man to the three brothers and now it's revealed that Starla is his daughter!
Some time passes, the boys ignore Starla and she is locked away in her room until they figure out what to do with her. Soon after, word comes that Katya, a cousin who was thought to be long dead, also another one who was taken by Oleg Gorky, has been alive after all! Gorky wants to trade Katya for Starla and Starla accepts the deal. The boys take her for the deal, making her think that she really is going to be given away, far away from these men that she loves. Turns out, Gorky is in a bunch of debt and they give him money and receive Katya in return! All's well that ends well?
Starla is surprised they didn't give her away but apparently everyone was in on the plan! The boys basically state that they love her and that she is not Oleg Gorky and more of that nonsense. They eventually end up getting married and having a baby boy named Alexei.
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So, this one was a bit more intense than the other two but also a bit more disappointing? There was no exchanges of affection between the four of them and somehow I am also somehow supposed to believe that the boys would just let go of a long time grudge against Groky just because they love Starla? Like what? And they never state that they love her so when did they develop these feelings for Starla?
Anyways, the story was okay, the mature scenes were nice and this is one I would recommend if you have nothing better to do. I liked it, but it also could have been better. I just have a bunch of questions left over and honestly with this being a standalone, I shouldn't be having them. Here's to hoping the next book I pick up is better.
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