Chapter Three
“I HAD TO SEE YOU,” Yuri said as he stood a few feet away. His eyes scanned her face then dropped to her neck and chest. Sophie raised her hands to her throat, attempting to hide the red marks, but it was no use. “What has he done to you?” he asked, his voice hard.
“Nothing I did not want him to,” she answered, turning away from his gaze and the vision of his forgotten yet familiar face. “You should leave. Valeri told you to stay out of sight.”
Yuri stepped closer. “Out of his sight. He said nothing of yours. Let me look at you.”
“No,” Sophie said, rising from her chair and moving to the window, keeping her back turned to him. “I don’t want you to.”
He followed close behind, his free-spirited animal magnetism radiating from his body and washing over her like a breeze fro
