Sophia
I had been sure that at sometime in the night Dimitri had crawled into bed with me. I had been half in a dream state, so I couldn’t be sure, but it had felt so real. The way he had held me and pressed his lips to my hair, breathing in the smell of my shampoo and sighing. It was so tender. So loving.
So unlike Dimitri.
Not that I had a chance to wonder about it for more than a few minutes. The bed was empty when i had opened my eyes. The blankets and pillows next to me smooth and cold. I flung an arm over my eyes and let the misery of my situation over me. Of course, Dimitri wasn’t with me. He had made it perfectly clear that he had better things to do. He had dragged me here to abandon me. And I had never felt so lonely.
Nikolai.
His name and smiling face flashed before my ey
