Meadow POV
Alexi moves toward her when she stays silent. He raises the torch, and she sobs before she finally answers. "Dimitri didn't destroy them. He brought them to my parents' house and showed them to me, mom, and Alexandra the day they arrived at the mansion. We were all thrilled Ivan would finally be rid of you. That he would finally have a proper Russian bride. That our families would be joined as it should have been instead of him picking up some useless American waitress," she says.
Without warning, Ivan steps around me and slaps her hard across the face. His hand print blooms on her cheek and I turn to look at him. "Even if Meadow never took me back, I would never have chosen you. You repulse me. I tolerated you, nothing more. I would rather stick my d**k in a pool of pirhanna
