NIKOLAI
“No! I can’t believe what you are saying!” I bellowed ar my brother. No! I couldn’t. There was no way Sasha was involved in something like that. Justin was bluffing. He had to be.
“You think I don’t want to wake up and see that it’s all a dream of a big lie, or a set up?” He asked, lifting his hands to punch his nose. It was a habit of his, which I did too. But that was not what drew my attention to his hands. It was the blood there.
That wasn’t good. My brother only did that when he was hurt deeply, and the last time it had happened was after our father had died.
All the anger I felt in me at the news he had brought quickly evaporated as I tried to look for a calm way to approach the situation, without making him feel more nervous than I knew he was already feeling. If his
