Dimitri
I knelt there in the sand, holding her lifeless body against my chest.
The waves crashed behind me. The wind howled. But I heard nothing except the silence of her heart.
She was not breathing.
Irina was gone.
"Irina," I whispered. "Please. Please wake up. Please do not leave me. I came for you. I am here now. I am here."
But she did not respond. Her body was cold and stiff. Her lips were blue.
"Dimitri," Mikhail said softly. He placed a hand on my shoulder. "We need to go. We need to..."
"No," I said. My voice was barely audible. "I am not leaving her."
"She is gone," Mikhail said gently. "There is nothing we can do for her now. But we can still find Alexei. We can make him explain what went wrong."
"He killed her," I whispered. "My brother killed he
