Natasha
I barely made it to my chambers before I completely fell apart. The sobs shook my entire body and made it impossible to breathe.
I collapsed onto my bed still in my blue velvet gown, mascara probably running down my face, and cried like my heart was breaking, because it was.
Years of loving someone who didn't know I existed, and tonight had finally shattered whatever foolish hope I had been clinging to.
Watching Mikhail walk in with those women, watching him laugh and touch them and pull that beautiful creature into his lap...
I couldn't do this anymore. I couldn't go back to quietly pining, to hiding in corners and pretending I was fine being invisible.
I always tried to make myself as small and invisible as possible, but deep down I wanted to be seen. To be heard. To be l
