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He really needs to stop saying things like that if all he ever plans to do is hurt me. He needs to stop touching me, calling me his, and looking at me with those intense eyes that seem ready to strip me bare and devour me all over again. My brain is starting to disregard the danger and focus on those small gestures, on what his body is saying instead of what his mind is planning.
“But you still don’t get to tell me what to do.” “Is that a dare?” His voice lowers. “By the end of the night, you’ll beg me to tell you what to do.”
“Your mother was the bratva’s Pakhan’s daughter. Mia Sokolov, daughter of Nikolai Sokolov and cousin of Ivan Sokolov.”
Of course, her father and cousin didn’t stop searching for her. She sullied the family’s name by running away. When they found out about her relationship with Gareth, they ordered their henchmen to kill your father.”
Your parents agreed that each would get a twin before they parted ways.
“Mia took her and ran, but Nikolai wanted the girl as his heir. Considering that Mia was the only offspring he had, her daughter needed to be brought up as the bratva’s princess.”
Mom didn’t want me to be the Russian mafia’s princess.
she kidnapped her other daughter from school. She planned to take you both out of the country and away from her father’s organization.”
She loved Nikolai and he treated her well, like his princess.”
I just never thought he and Gareth could’ve hidden an identity switch this way. Does her name matter? Does it change anything? No, and fucking no. I was never interested in Reina prior to her disappearance.
The one I got entangled within all the wrong ways was the girl who returned with Gareth that day.
Goddamn this side of Reina—it’s a one-way road to sin, to nothingness.
Who said it’s easy to find the right road? If Reina is the wrong one, I’m not leaving this fucking place for eternity.
“What language is this?” she murmurs, her voice sleepy. “Arabic.” “What does it mean?” My peaceful mood from earlier disappears. I can pretend none of it happened, can pretend all of this is fine. But it’s not. One day, I’ll have to wake up and do what I planned all along. My fists clench by my sides. “Eye for an eye.”
“You’re the only one I have, and I feel like I’m losing you to your obsession with Reina.”
Is that why she killed herself? So its kinda actually his fault not hers.
“No, not that type of love. I’m in love with her, Gray—romantically. Like I can’t live without her.”
No, I’m the worst. Because I don’t want to share Reina. Not even with my sister.
want the light and the darkness. The sanity and the madness. The beauty and the ugliness. I want everything. Just like I need him to accept me whole.
My mind reels from the amount of information being thrown my way.
I realized I couldn’t possibly live without this boy anymore, and it scared the fuck out of me because Asher isn’t mine.
“I’m in love with him, Rei. Not like a sibling, but as a man.”
After all, I’m Asher’s queen in public and his slut in private.
“Don’t ever mention my wife’s name and making babies in the same sentence or I’ll fucking kill you. Deal? Deal.”
It’s the same part that fell in love with her a long time ago and doesn’t want me to fucking do what I’ve planned.
But that part has had no say in anything since three years ago. Reina murdered that part in cold blood.
Even I don’t know how I look right now. All I know is this ends today. Every. Fucking. Thing. Just like everything ended three years ago.
“I…I told Reina I loved her. You know what she said?” Fuck. Fuck! “Come here and tell me, Ari, okay?” She shakes her head, her leg pushing back. I freeze an arm’s length away from her. “She laughed, Gray.”
Why is she lying
“She laughed at me and asked if I was serious. She said my brother and I are so fucking delusional and made fun of me. Why did she make fun of me?” Reina did that?
“Then don’t forget this, Gray.” Her face turns stone-cold as the tears and sniffles and sobbing disappear. “Make Reina pay for my death.”
Ari isn’t the only one who died. Today, I died with her.
Arianna and her destructive lies have turned him into a killing machine, a hollow existence without a heart or a core.
My fingers shake at the thought. Jason is also Cloud003. He befriended me, fucked me, and was there for me in the most convenient times. He was also there right before Arianna killed herself. It can’t be a coincidence, right?
Not only do I need to clear my name, I also need Asher to let go of the ghosts of the past.
The camouflage of the costumes gave me the anonymity I needed to surrender to him.
“I thought you allowed a stranger to fuck you, Reina. I fucking hated you for it even though it was me.”
“I claimed both your pussy and your ass over and over again.”
“Why Cloud003, though?” I murmur in my sleepy haze. “Cloud because of Gray, my middle name. 003 because of the day I first met you, January 3rd. It’s the reason behind this room number, too—1003.” I smile against his skin. Damn this man and the lengths he went to for this. I love you, my mind screams. I love you so much, and it kills me to think you don’t feel the same.
Is u dum? Of course he does
“You can’t leave me, not anymore.” His lips brush against mine in a brief, heartbreaking kiss. “You’re my world now.”
You’re Mia’s Sokolov’s daughter and Nikolai Sokolov’s granddaughter. You can do this.
“I can’t rule if any of Nikolai’s filthy blood live on.
Kyle, as Alexander introduced us. No idea if that’s a real name or an alias, but I don’t give two fucks right now. If he has the skills to get Reina out of that hellhole then he can be an alien for all I care.
“We’ll just have to cross paths like Dad and I used to, you in your world and me in mine.”
even parallel lines can collide and become one.
The past isn’t something we should dwell on; the future is.
