NIKOLAI’S POV Six Weeks Later.. The pain of losing Valentina has been suffocating. It feels like my soul has been split into two and I’ve been living in a shell inside of myself. I’ve spent my days trying to track down Lorenzo but I can’t get my f*****g hands on him. I thought burning his estate to the ground would lure him out, but he seems to have gone into hiding. I took pleasure in burning that place to the ground. Watching it burn brought me so much comfort, but then Valentina’s hazel eyes flooded my mind, taking that comfort away. I was lost without her and I had no idea how to find her. I even started destroying businesses related to the Russians up and down the city of New York, but still, nobody has come out of hiding. I try not to think about Valentina and what may be

