Nikolai's POV
I couldn't count how many times I'd heard that name from his lips but I nodded either way, forcing myself not to lash out on him or anyone else for that matter. It wasn't his fault or anyone's fault that a particular person being around me made my blood boil.
In fact, the mere thought of him made me want to slam his head into the nearest wall. Continuously, until his skull had been grounded into a fine and smooth powder that I would obviously toss into the forbidden lake.
I raised my gaze from the study desk where Aaron's gruesome death had just played in my mind and focused on Xavier's face. He was still talking, no doubt about that asshole Aaron.
"You are listening to me, right?" Xavier spoke up the minute I raised my head. "Or perhaps there must be something I misse
