It’s amazing to me that she’d even think I wouldn’t go with her to Montenegro.
That I’d allow an ocean to separate us.
Misha’s right.
She is my weakness.
She is a liability.
I will do anything and everything to keep her safe…
And I failed in that last night.
I shouldn’t have let her take part in this stupid ritual.
But I did.
Because you cannot chain a butterfly. Not without killing them. And my soul recognized something in hers years ago. Nothing physical. Or sexual. Just a connection. Innocent. Pure. Like nothing else in my life.
Wherever she is, I will be.
FIFTEEN
SHOWER 2 - MAXIM 0
The urge totouch him is something I can’t fight.
I don’t want to fight it.
And I don’thaveto fight it.
He keeps telling me he’s mine, doesn’t he?
I’ll never tire of hearing him make that declaration.
“You look mutinous,pchelka,” he remarks as he slips under the waterfall. “What are you thinking? Dangerous thoughts?”
“Only before bedtime.”
He barks out a laugh. “So, not sex, then?”
“Set a date, Maxim,” I mock, earning myself another laugh.
Smugness fills me.
The man who used to drive me around the city is so different from this one. He laughed all the time and teased me. This Maxim’s so serious. Somber. Only… not around me.
And I like that.
More than I probably should.
I stare down at his penis. “Well?”
“Well, what?”
“Why isn’t it hard? I have my boobs out, Maxim.”
He snorts. “And I just blasted my dick with water.”
