It's unsettling the way his smile, much like his eye contact, never falters.
"I hear the two of you are living together," he continues. "Does that news call for congratulations or are you here looking for an out?"
Again, Katerina's warning echoes in the back of my head.
Is there any chance I have this backwards? Could Katerina and Ilya be warning me away from a dangerous situation? Should I listen?
Then his smile ticks up another notch, and I have to suppress a full-body shiver.
This dude scores a zero out of ten on the vibes test. My intuition wants absolutely nothing to do with him or his creepy questions.
"I just came to talk to Samuil. If you could point me towards his office, then---"
"Then you'd find an empty office," he finishes, looking smug enough that I dread the next wor
