Vlad
I call Mika a dozen times but he doesn’t answer. Little prick. I guess he’s taken Alessia’s side. In the time they’ve been gone, I hacked the public records.
Sabina has a daughter in an orphanage. And she named me as the father on the birth certificate.
That may or may not be true. The child may be Zima’s. It may be Victor’s; it may be any other number of men she attempted to manipulate into doing her bidding.
But now I have to find out if it’s mine. Alessia would want that.
And that’s the thought that sends a lance straight through my heart.
She hates me now after the way I threatened her brother’s lives. It’s true—Victor would never allow them to set foot in this country alive, but I shouldn’t throw such a thing at her. The words were meant to cut.
And clearly they did.
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