Really, Ivan was lucky to have anyone on his side, with what an unbelievably major dick he’d been the last few years. Well, since birth, really, but he’d amped it up lately, even for him. Sascha supposed betrayal did that to a man. Not that dear middle child Alexei had seen his actions as a betrayal—survival, more like. Never mind that he’d left his little brother here all alone to deal with their oldest brother’s hissy fits.
