"I am sorry," Nikolai said, pulling me towards him.
I was still deep in thought regarding the confession I knew he had simply not been able to tell me, and it haunted me. The jokes, the fact that I had kaughed away with it, and how I hadn't further questioned those drugs. Why I never asked the reason why Nicheal had broken tjiae injections and how even seemed to know Nikolai had them from the very beginning.
"I am fine," I managed to say, meeting his eyes. "You just make so many jokes about you being sick that I think I am starting to believe it."
He shook his head and smiled, cupping my cheeks, his thumb pressing down on the flesh.
"Don't mind me. I guess I never got to explore who I was with anyone else, and a part of me that I don't even recognise keeps peeking out around you becaus
