Natalia
My body went rigid.
“Get your hands off of me,” I hissed, shoving Andrei hard in the chest. He stumbled back, surprised by my sudden strength. Several couples around us paused their dancing, glancing our way.
Andrei recovered quickly, his face settling into that familiar mask of cold indifference. But his eyes burned straight into mine like he could see right through me, all the way through the lie I was holding onto like my life depended on it.
Because maybe it did. Maybe the twins’ lives depended on that lie, too.
For a heart-stopping moment, I wondered if he somehow knew about the twins. If this whole alliance, this invitation to the banquet, was just another one of his elaborate schemes to get me to confess the truth.
But no. He couldn’t know. If he did, he would have sai
