Irina
I had made up my mind.
If Alexei would not let me go, then I would make him wish he had never taken me in the first place.
I would drive him insane. I would be so difficult, so annoying, and so impossible to deal with that he would have no choice but to send me back to Dimitri.
It was a dangerous plan. But it was all I had.
That morning, I heard voices downstairs. I crept to my door and listened. Men were having a heated conversation.
It seems Alexei was having a meeting. An important one from the sound of it.
"Perfect timing." I chuckled.
I took a deep breath, rubbed my eyes to make them red and messed up my hair. I put my hand on my stomach, then walked downstairs.
The guards tried to stop me. "Miss, you are not allowed..."
I pushed past them and thr
