I noticed a muscle in Andrei’s jaw shifting.

Cerise nonetheless regarded cool and unconcerned, and he or she moved to take a seat down subsequent to Frederik, a grimace crossing her face as she sat within the exhausting chair.

“What’s incorrect?” requested the Pakhan, as he noticed Cerise wince.

“She did one thing very silly,” mentioned Andrei coldly and unsympathetically.

I snuck a take a look at Cerise to see how she took that and I used to be astonished to see her wanting cheekily at her husband, biting down on her full lips as she checked out him.

“I gained’t do it once more, although,” she mentioned docilely.

I checked out her once more, extra intently this time, since I had begun to be much less afraid that Andrei would shoot me. However how lengthy would Grigoriy’s safety lengthen?

Cerise tucked a curl behind her ear and I noticed that the arm the place she had reduce herself was wrapped fastidiously up, and really totally, all the way in which from her wrist to her elbow.

I may additionally scent the sharp, pungent odor of disinfectant cream.

Another person had bandaged her up very fastidiously, as a result of she couldn’t have executed it herself.

It needed to have been Andrei. I couldn’t think about he had a very good aspect, however Dmitri will need to have been proper that he was very connected to his spouse.

Andrei didn’t sit down, stalking out of the room to verify on safety, although the Pakhan assured him any breaches within the partitions had been repaired and the remaining guards totally investigated for loyalty.

I let loose a breath as he left, and I wasn’t the one one, Dmitri wiping some sweat from his forehead as he regarded over at me.

Solely Cerise and the Pakhan appeared unconcerned.

“He’ll be additional psychotic for some time,” Cerise suggested placidly, taking a drink from her espresso, “till he reassures himself that the safety is healthier.”

Then she referred to as for the housekeeper and ordered a room to be made up for me.

* * *

I hoped my worry of Andrei would dissipate at dinner, however my knees nonetheless quaked. Fortunately I wasn’t seated subsequent to him, however between the Pakhan and Frederik.

As we ate the cool, refreshing soup, which tasted and felt so good in opposition to my tongue after the recent, anxious day I had had, I knocked into the bowl and spilled some on the white tablecloth.

I froze, hating the sensation of being the focal point.

Frederik, seated subsequent to me, simply mentioned, “There’s been worse issues on this tablecloth, I’m positive. Like blood.”

He smiled at me, and I couldn’t assist wanting into his eyes, heat and blue, earlier than reminding myself that I wanted to cease performing like I’d by no means seen a gorgeous man earlier than. It was no surprise I by no means had any luck.

I accepted the serviette he handed me gratefully, and went to scrub up the spill, however I felt Cerise’s eyes on me and I puzzled what she was contemplating so thoughtfully, a crease between her brows.

18

FREDERIK

“I would like you to take Mary as your spouse,” Cerise introduced one morning shortly after she had returned, popping into my research with out warning as she all the time did.

“What?” I mentioned, jolted out of my reverie, my analysis e book sitting unopened in entrance of me on my desk as I regarded out the window.

“Mary,” Cerise replied. “I would like you to make her your spouse.”

I gaped at her. “I’ve no intention of getting married,” I mentioned sharply.

“I do know you don’t,” mentioned Cerise. “Marry her anyway.”

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