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“Oh, I’m sorry, am I annoying you?” Her head rolled to the side lazily, and she flashed me a big, beaming smile. “Good.” Yep. Definitely torture.
I grasped a chicken drumstick and smacked Dimitri across the face with it. It made this very satisfying splat sound, thanks to all the gravy. His eyes bulged wide in shock, mouth dropping open as if he couldn’t believe I had the audacity to slap him in the face with a piece of chicken.
Fed up and full of anger, I unlocked that dark, evil side of me. The one that felt nothing. No pain. No remorse. No mercy. The Butcher.
First, Lukyan, my crazy, erratic, Golden Retriever little boy who drove me crazy half the time but could always make me laugh. Then Illayana, my beautiful baby girl who looked so much like her mother that it hurt to look at her sometimes. And finally, Nikolai, my brave, strong genius who would do anything for the people he loved.
“If we don’t make it out of this, Your Royal Grouchiness, it has not been nice working with you.” What a bold-faced lie. Those last few weeks… I’d never felt so alive. But I would take that secret to my grave. Dimitri grunted. “Same to you, devil woman.”
“You think I like this?” he hissed, staring down at me. “You think I like this fucking torment warring inside of me? That I like feeling this way? You drive me absolutely fucking insane!”
“You’ve held onto her for ten years, Father. There comes a time where you need to let her go and move on. I’m here to tell you that’s okay. That we all support you. Not to ruin this chance you have at happiness because you can’t let go of the past. Mother wouldn’t want this for you. She wouldn’t want you to spend your days alone. She would want you to be happy.”
“There’s no competition. She was the mother of my children. A huge part of my life. I’ll always respect and care for her on some level. But my heart no longer belongs to her. It belongs to you.”
“I’m in love with you, Autumn. You’re the one I think about. The one I dream about. The one I can’t bear to be without. You.”
“You can kiss me here,” I said, pointing to my pussy. “Because although I may have forgiven you, you’ve got some serious making up to do.”
