Dimitri
I knew what she thought, I knew without her even opening her mouth to ask me. Not that she asked me. Sophia barely even looked at e all through dinner. She answered politely any questions I threw in her direction. Almost her entire concentration was focuses on the boy. Which was exactly where mine should have been, and I tried. I tried really hard to make him feel at home, but I can see the wariness in his eyes that looked so much like my own.
Nikolai was nervous and I couldn’t blame him for that. I was a stranger to him. I wasn’t his father. Not yet. That would change in time, and I knew it would take time. At that moment I was just the man who he felt he needed to protect his mum from. I could see that in his eyes as well. How he wanted to protect him mum from me. That’s how
