Sophia
Things got worse, rapidly and expectedly worse. But that wasn’t a surprise. The moment I had pushed him away from me and told never to touch me again, I had drawn a line in the sand. We were on separate camps now. And that was firmly on him. I acted like the dutiful wife. I smiled and cooed over him in public and the moment we were alone, I left. I filled my days the best way I could. First with Nicky and then after he had enrolled in school with Alice and Lily. Some days I took myself off to their “Little England” and just lay looking up at the ceiling for hours on end.
It wasn’t any sort of existence. And it was exhausting. I missed my old life. Both of them. Even the one where Dimitri was bossy and demanding. At least then I could pretend he cared for me. The icy aloofness he
