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Lia didn’t just challenge me, she also seeped under my skin and clashed into my bones.
Now, I have to let her go for her own good.
Because even though I need her in my life and crave the softness she brings to my ragged edges, I have apparently cut her too deep that I didn’t only reach the flesh, but I also severed tendons and veins.
I told her I would be there for her until her scars healed, but I ended up adding a few of my own.
“Hey, Kolya.” My voice is lethargic, low.
“Yes, Boss.”
“Do you also believe I suffocated Lia?”
My second-in-command hesitates before touching the short blond hairs at his nape. “Honestly? I believe you suffocated each other.”
I face him. “How so?”
“You didn’t give her many choices and she retaliated by being cold and putting distance between you two. She did that to protect herself, I believe, but you’re not a patient person, so the situation kept mounting until we reached this phase.”
“You’ve had those beliefs all along?”
“Yes.”
“Then why haven’t you voiced them?”
“You didn’t ask for my opinion, so I didn’t see the need to give it.”
“I thought you’d be in Yan’s camp.”
“I am, partially. However, Yan can be reckless. Due to his friendship with Mrs. Volkov, he sometimes forgets about your character, Boss.”
“It’ll get him killed one day.”
“He just cares about her.”
“And you think I don’t?”
“Of course not. You just…show it differently.” Kolya pauses. “What do you plan to do about this situation?”
A long sigh leaves me as I study the pattern of the closed shutters through the glass. When the therapist said that Lia needs a change of habitat, an idea has been building in my head.
I hate it, but it may well be the only solution possible right now.
“I will let her be Winter.”
Kolya watches me intently as if I’ve grown a second head. “You…will?”
“It’s either that or I’ll lose her.”
“And how do you intend to go about that?”
“Do you still keep in touch with your colleague from the Spetsnaz who was excellent at disguise makeup?”
“Yes. What do you need him for?”
“Yan.”
“Yan?”
