Ava
"What are you doing, Malysh?"
Nikolai asks, his voice low yet curious as he watches me stack pillow after pillow in the space between us.
The corner of my mouth pulls downward, barely sparing him a glance. “Isn't it obvious? I'm building a barrier” I reply simply, reaching for another pillow.
Nikolai leans back against the headboard, the mattress crinkling softly under his movements. His gaze never leaves mine as he watches me effectively build the only thing I could come up with last minute to serve as a barrier.
“And why exactly do you need a barrier, Solnyshko? Especially one made from such flimsy building material" He says, eyeing said flimsy building material.
His comment shouldn't bother me half as much as it does and yet it does.
I release a puff of air, tucking the stra
