Sergei clenched his fist against the window as he stared down at the city with unseeing eyes. He hurt. When Rune had said she only had a few weeks at most to… an explosive curse ripped from his lips and it took every ounce of self-discipline not to try to put his fist through the glass.
“We won’t let it happen,” Dimitri said from behind him in a voice that would have sent shivers of fear down lesser men. “We will keep her safe. She said she was killed protecting others. I will double the number of bodyguards. We will keep her safe until she feels the time has passed when she might be taken again.”
Sergei turned and looked at Dimitri with tortured eyes. “I can’t lose her, Dimitri,” he admitted brokenly. “Why? Just the thought of what she has gone through over and over. How could any God c
