NICOLAI'S POV
My lungs still burn from kissing her as I stare down at Aria where she’s trapped between my body and the kitchen counter, her chest rising unevenly beneath that damned dress while her swollen lips part to let out a shaky breath.
Fuck... Even now she looks at me like I’m the center of her world and it’s all a lie...
The realization tears through me again and rips open the already festering wound in my heart. I'd lost everything tonight... I'd found out who I was and he wasn't someone I wanted to be... I had no family left. No Wife... No Aria...
All this time she was my Target and I was an assassin working for the Sovereign...
The words still echo violently inside my skull, colliding against everything I thought I knew as I look at the woman in my arms and something insid
