NICKOLAI'S POV The door pushed open suddenly, causing me to raise my head. I warned Jason sternly that no one was allowed into the study and that I wanted no disturbance of any sort; however, my gaze hardened seeing that it was Freya who made her way inside. She approached me. Pleading and making an explanation about what had happened between both she and my father, how she tried to cover up for a crime she had no idea I didn't commit, but I felt my anger rise the more. Why was she keen on lying? I had no reason to believe her, especially when she had kept the fact that she had an agenda hidden. And it happened to belong to the "Please, Nicholai, let's start all over, all from scratch, afresh, you and I. Can we at least call a truce? she pleaded before clutching hard to my arm!

