One for My Enemy

by Olivie Blake

“Don’t forgive me, Lev, if you can’t, and certainly don’t love me. You’ll only make fools of us both.”

Her eyes said you fucking traitor and Lev breathed back I know, I love you, I know.

(This one is not for you, he knew, but please, please, may I borrow her from someone else’s fate? May I have her until her stars change, or mine? May I worship her until I die, and may I give her all of me, for better or worse, or worse, or surely worse?)

What exactly is your connection to Marya Antonova, Dimitri Fedorov?” She is my entire soul, Dimitri didn’t say. “We knew each other once.”