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“A giant grizzly bear broke into my house. He broke some stuff, but I chased him away.” That sounds better. Nikolai’s brows raise. My arms move as I shrug. “What? That’s better than the real thing.” Lara giggles. “I know it isn’t true. But you’re funny. Can you tell me another?” Nikolai pats my leg and stands. “We’ll be back. Keep her company.” “I promise. For eternity.”
There is not a future where I am not here with her. It doesn’t exist. I won’t let it.
As loud as I can, I bray like a donkey, holding my own blade up to my own throat. “Let her go, or the ass gets it!” I scream at the top of my lungs.
As my lips press against hers, my entire being is set on fire. This was worth the wait. My first kiss had to be with my pchelka.
She’s the reason I drag myself out of bed each morning. The reason I make sure I don’t actually get myself killed. My first thought of the day and my last is always her. In fact, there probably isn’t a minute where she isn’t on my mind.
Call me delusional, but the fact he’s stalking me means he’s obsessed with me. Just like I am with him. I can’t be mad about that.
“I love you, pchelka. It’s you. It’s always been you. It will always be you.”
“I’ve been in love with you for a long, long time, Alexei. Please never stop being you. Never stop making me laugh, or being your crazy self. I love you for everything you are. And I’ll love you until I take my last breath.”
“Yes. All of it. All of your crazy, Alexei. I don’t love you despite it, I love you for it.”
“Maybe we don’t need fixing, maybe we were always meant to be broken together, pchelka.”
“You are Lara fucking Volkov. The beauty, the brains and the heart of the family. I have loved you for a long time and I will love you for eternity. I’d love you if you became a flamingo, I’ll love you when you’re gray and wrinkly. I love you even now when you wake up and breathe on my face with your hair piled up on the top of your head. You can’t see you’re perfect, I probably will never truly understand why, but I will spend the rest of my life showing you just how magnificent you are to me. That I promise you.”
His dark eyes burn into my soul. And this is it. My entire life in one man. The one who sees me for who I am. Who doesn’t try to fix me. He accepts me for all of my broken and cherishes every part of me. The man who made me believe something seemingly impossible… I am worthy of the love that I crave.
