Staying Away
Irena’s POV
I laid down to sleep but was disturbed by the sound of my phone ringing. By this time, I was already familiar with a particular person calling in the quiet of the night and I took my phone off my bedside table, calming my already accelerated heartbeat before I proceeded to answer the call. All these took seconds, but it felt like minutes.
“Hey beautiful,” Alexey’s familiar hoarse voice whispered, going straight to my heart and putting to futility; all the hard work I went through, trying to calm my rapidly beating heart down.
“You called,” my voice came out weak and shaky. I don’t like this feeling of weakness that comes over me anytime I hear his voice.
“I told you that I’ll call, were you asleep, did I wake you up?” he asked with a little bit of
