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“Easy, Princess.” Kyle scolds in a loveable kind of way. “You can’t keep walking in the fast pace you’re used to.” “Whose fault is it that I’m bloated?” She pokes him. “Mine?” “Exactly. So stop nagging.” His eyes gleam with mischievousness. “No.” She glares at him playfully, then shakes her head. “You’re hopeless.” “For you? Fuck right, I am, Princess.”
elbowing Kyle. “I’m thirsty.” “I’ll be right back.”
My husband’s enemy is my enemy.
My father takes my hand and kisses the back of it with clear affection that paints a smile on my lips.
“Dance with me.” I’m speechless for a second, my gaze flitting from his hand to his face. “W-what?” “May I have this dance, Mrs. Volkov?”
“I didn’t know you danced, Adrian.” “I don’t.” “You are right now.” “Because you look beautiful.” “You’re dancing because I look beautiful?” “It’s a perfectly good reason.” “Is that really all?” “No. I need to stake my claim so that no fucker looks at you.”
I would’ve worshipped you away from onlookers,
She’s so beautiful, it physically aches sometimes.
I even let Damien address her just so I could hear the tenor of her voice and the newly-found spark in her words. My Lenochka
my Lenochka
She’ll always be my lone rose—the resilient rose that I’d pluck from the side of the road over and over again, even if her thorns caused me to bleed. She’s my rose.
I’m done treating my wife like a stranger when she’s always been the only person who mattered in a room full of people. The only person I see.
cradling a glass of champagne that Yan fetched for me.
“Of course. Not all of us are idiots.”
“You didn’t have a problem with that before.” “Of course I did. Why the hell do you think I jumped off that fucking cliff?”
“You can ask for anything and I’ll slaughter everything in my path so it’s yours,
you tell me not to be with her alone?” He retrieves his phone. “Wait. She called me.” Of course she did.
“Breathe, Lenochka. I’m here.” “Adrian…” I shake my head. “I didn’t mean to that time… I don’t want to now…” “Nothing will happen to you.”
A muscle tightens in his jaw and a glassy sheen has covered his eyes by the time he finishes. He finally did it.
Not only the three of us, but also Yan, Kolya, Boris, Winter, and even Ogla. I made it a rule that all of us eat together at least once a week and then play Scrabble. Something that Adrian grumbles about, but he still helps me cheat.
offering me one of his rare smiles. “Ready, wife?”
he says it’s to give Jeremy a sibling and that we should both sacrifice for the greater good.
my Lenochka
and he’s the first one she smiled at.
my Lenochka
She’s still the most beautiful rose I’ve ever seen.

