Chapter Seven
PRESENT DAY, LOCATION UNKNOWN
It’s time you held up your end of our bargain.
Alexei’s words reverberate through me, raising goosebumps all over my bare skin. Or maybe it’s the warmth of his breath against my neck and the knowledge that I have nowhere to run, that after all these years, I’m finally going to lose this high-stakes game we’ve been playing. Then again, maybe it’s for the best. I’m tired of running, tired of fighting.
I understand now that this man was always destined to destroy me.
It was written in the stars on the day both of us were born, precisely five years apart.
“That’s it. Stop fighting it,” he murmurs into my ear, loosening his grip on my wrists, and perversely, it’s his words that provide the strength to resist the insidious desire thrumming inside
