Chapter 12
Alessia
Curled up on the comfortable black leather sofa in Vlad’s opulent living room, I practice my Russian with the Rosetta Stone.
Mika snickers at my accent.
I repeat it, watching for his approval until he nods.
It’s been three days since we arrived and we’ve settled into a routine with his tutoring. I teach him for a few hours and then he helps me with my Russian. I have the Rosetta Stone and also a translating app. Vlad somehow figured out how to give me a tablet that accesses only certain websites, but I can’t get online to do anything else. I can’t figure out how he did it, but I think he must be pretty tech savvy. The way his fingers fly over the keys on his laptop, he definitely seems at home.
He works long hours in his office, bent over the laptop or pacing aroun
