Sasha
SashaShock made me freeze when Maxim came in. Seeing him so deadly—gunning down Viktor and Alexei with military precision, a bullet right between their eyes—stunned me.
And it demolishes my heart because he’s doing it for me—avenging my supposed death.
I want to run at him and throw myself in his arms… until Ravil stops him from pointing the gun at me, and I see the betrayal on his face. The color drains from it. His eyes go dead. He shakes his head, his gaze on me murderous.
That’s when my heart stops beating altogether.
Not physically, but emotionally.
The man I love—the only man I’ve ever loved—the only man who’s ever loved me now hates me.
He believes I duped him. The shreds of our existence flutter down around my ears, forming a terrible, horrible pattern.
His mother—lyi
