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“You scared me,” I murmur.
“Then you shouldn’t have come here.”
“I can’t keep avoiding her forever while we live under the same roof.”
“You’re not living under the same roof.”
“Fine. Same property.”
“Then I can move her away.”
“Away…where?” I sound as spooked as I feel, probably because I know what life means in Adrian’s dictionary—nothing.
“Anywhere but here.”
“No. She’s like this because of us. We need to take responsibility.”
“Responsibility for what? Did you force her to switch places with you?”
“Of course not.”
“Then I’m taking no responsibility for a choice she made on her own.”
“Did hitting her head also happen because of a choice she made?”
“Yes. She tried to run away, tripped, and cracked her head.”
“Really?” I frown. I thought he’d caused her to be like this somehow.
“If I’d hurt her, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it. She took your place and that alone is punishable by death according to me.”
“Is there anything that’s not punishable by death according to you?”
“Not really.”
“Death is supposed to be the last possible resort, not the first.”
“Not to me. I don’t believe in second chances, Lenochka.”
“But you…gave me one. Right?”
“You’re the exception.”
I get what he’s saying without him having to voice it aloud. This is the only chance he’ll give me, so I better use it well.
Not that I didn’t know already.
“How did you know I was here?” I opt to change the subject. “Let me guess, Boris or Kolya.”
“Kolya.”
I scoff. “What a perfect right-hand man. You spend more time with him than with anyone else, you know. If you swung in the other direction, he would’ve been your model wife.”
“Are you jealous of my second-in-command, Lia?”
“Of course not!”
“If you say so.”
