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A movement caught my attention. Maybe it was also stupid to wait for her to wake up, but I still did. After eight years, she was in my hands. How could I stay away from her?
Kira moved a little, and then a soft, painful moan escaped her lips. Before she could open her eyes, she whispered, “Water?”
I uncapped the bottle on the bedside table and leaned to brought it to her lips. I was already sitting too close.
Her eyes opened slightly, and she started drinking the water. When her gulping finished, she opened those magnificent blue eyes fully. They looked a little out of focus but just for a second. She looked into my eyes, my soul, and something like recognition dawned there. “You?”
“Me?” I answered. How did she remember me? Was I the Italian mobster she saw on the tabloids, or was I the boy she met eight years ago and betrayed?
Who was I to her?
She didn’t answer my mental questions. Instead, asked another, “Am I dead?”
My chest tightened, but my cool look remained. “You don’t look dead.The cuts were not too deep. A doctor stitched you back up. I also hade to give you a sedative.” I wanted to make sure she would stay calm while the doctor was treating her.
“But you…” she murmured to herself like she couldn’t understand, and her eyes widened. “Youkidnapped me.” she looked at the bandages on her wrists. “Youfucking did this?”
“Yeah, I saved you. A thank you would be nice, you know.”
To that, she sat up.Since she put her weight on her hands, it was visible that it caused her pain. She didn’t seem like she cared, but I had to use all my strength to not stop her from hurting herself.
Her eyes were all teared up as she asked me, “Why would you do that to me?” Tears slid down to her perfect porcelain cheeks. “How could you do this to me twice?”
Twice? Did she remember what happened eight years ago? “You mean saving your life?” I asked.
She looked up at me. There was only pure anger in her gaze. She looked at me like I didn’t save her but killed her. “Steal my opportunity to die! You stole it years ago, and I have hated you since then for it. And now you did it again. Why can’t you just let me die?”
She started full-on crying, and I had no idea what I should have gotten from her words. Should I be angry, or should I just laugh? How could someone want to die so much?
But for some reason, I couldn’t focus on those. All I could think was the fact that she remembered me. She hated me for years. She thought of me for years. I shouldn’t have liked this idea so much, but I did. I loved that she thought of me every day.
I was not the only one who couldn’t forget. I was not the only one that was affected. There was really something between us.
“You remember me?” I asked.
“How could I forget you?” she said, and my heart went crazy like a teenage boy. “You ruined my life.”
Feelings mutual, Darling. But also, what the fuck?
“You want to die?” My voice made it clear how ridiculous the question was. Why the fuck would she want that?
Her blue eyes filled with hope. “Yes,” she said.
It made me so angry. The thought of her death was killing me inside, and she was so ready to give up her life. It was stupid. It was horrible. It couldn’t be real. It didn’t make sense.
With all the anger her wish brought me, I took off my gun from my holster and pressed it into her temple. “This is what you want, Kira?”or are you just trying to fuck with my head?
Her eyes lit up even more. She beamed up at me, pressing her head to the barrel.Crazy woman.“Yes,” she said with a small voice. “Please. Kill me.”
If she was playing with me, I would be angry, but this was even worse than that. She was really so ready to die. What made her like this? I wanted to ruin everything that made her want this shit. I wanted to reach inside her head and just snatch the idea of death right away. It made my heart fucking hurt.
Her blue eyes held no fear. She was happy to die. She was excited about it.
No. Not on my fucking watch.
Yet, she couldn’t know this. Aleksei probably held her alive by force. That wouldn’t work. I needed to trick her.
I pulled my gun back, making her stumble forward towards it. “Not now.”
