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“You better be fucking shitting me. Not to mention the fact that I can keep her just fine if I want. I sent her packing. Lover’s spat. It’s a long story.”
“Well, you better get your fucking wits about you. Your wife, Elena Unger as she’s referring to herself, told me a pretty interesting story. The story about the Badescu sisters and the event in London in a week. I think you need to know what the fuck is going on. Because it could mean all of our heads, not just yours. I know maybe yours isn’t on straight, and maybe you don’t care to have it straight. But I could bet you might care about Elena’s head and whether or not she loses it for real.”
That’s the one thing I didn’t account for. I forgot that I set Elena up to be stuck working with the traitors. Part of me thought that maybe she would just join them and let us all get blown up. Or maybe she would run and have nothing to do with me or them. But it sounds like she’s still doing the right thing. Even as fucked up as I made her, she’s trying to save us all.
“Tell me fucking everything.”
And he does. Stefan tells me about how Galina plans to blow up this event too. I guess she has some kind of fucking fetish for bombs. Stefan has this whole thing planned out, and I should be grateful to him, but it’s like he’s kind of stealing my thunder.
I mean, I know I kind of set Elena in his direction. I’ll never admit to it, though, but I am glad Elena went to him and that he’s keeping her safe. The Badescu sisters could have found out by now that she was a liar and killed her, or even worse could’ve happened to her out there on the streets.
The thing is, I really shouldn’t fucking care. I don’t have the kind of heart to care. I’ve always prided myself on being this strong man. Nothing at all like my brother Isaac. It’s why I thought it deserved to be me and clearly not him to lead the Ungurs. It turns out I’m just a big fucking baby. Especially when it comes to this one woman. The funny thing about it is, I want my wife back. I wanted her to actually be my wife. Which I didn’t exactly expect. I knew out of all the women, having watched Elena kill my brother in cold blood with her bare hands using that hairpin, that she was as close as I was ever going to get to some like my Mariana. She was close to someone who was going to worm her way into my heart, if I had one left at all.
But the fact that I expected her to love me, was a fucking joke. It was to begin with, but now? Now, the idea is ridiculous and impossible. I have used and abused her. I have tricked her into believing that there’s no way in hell I have any feelings for her. She believes I still feel something for Mariana. And honestly, I don’t know if I do. I don’t know if I ever did, or if I just like the idea of the two of us.
I think back to that day as kids, basically, and how she seemed to be convinced that I wanted to be with her because I wanted the power. I wanted to be the king of the Clans. Is that something I wanted to do? Maybe it really was. Maybe it was all about proving to my father that I was better than my brother. Proving to my mother that I was worth loving by somebody who mattered.
Yeah, Mariana is hot. She was the closest to a best friend as I have ever had. But I was using her just the same that I’ve used every woman in my life. If I’m being honest, she was the first, not the first woman that I locked in that fucking cage. She is lucky that she never had to deal with me in that way.
Right now, I’m a fool, and if I work with Stefan I can become the hero. I promise to be ready in London.
As soon as I am off the phone, I call the party off. I send everybody home, and I even pay for the women to go home with the men that want to take them home. I mean, I’m still a good host. I still understand the need for that kind of thing.
And then, I go find every pill in the house and I flush them down the toilet. Every last fucking one.
I may never get Elena back. I may never get her to love me. But I want to show her I have the capability of being the hero that I wanted to be. I’m going to fucking help save the Clans… and her.
