I would have liked Sofia to stay naked in my bed all day, but she insisted on going to work. After f*****g her senseless in my shower, I drove her to the gallery and went in to check on my own business matters. Not only did I have work to do, but I also needed to figure out how to get Sofia untangled from the Russians and quietly. She’d never want her parents to know, so that made things tricky. Seeing her with Michael made my skin crawl with the need to break up their little breakfast date and pound him into the ground. I forced myself to stay put for what seemed like ages, watching them chat like it was the most natural thing in the world. It was important for me to see their dynamic before I could work on cutting him out of her life. Every bit of patience I had expired when she began to

