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And in those short minutes, another pill was swallowed, and darkness followed.
XXVIII
KATIA
Sunlight escapedthrough a thin gap as the rest of the curtains blocked the day from infiltrating the room. I tried to escape the fog, but the harder my eyes battled the more I felt like giving up.
I wiggled my head and felt a sharp sting from the pillow’s touch, waking me. And everything rushed back in a sea of torment.
From death, my grim face, the blows I received, to falling asleep next to a man many feared. The one who I once believed couldn’t act like he cared, but that night, his act feltreal.
But that night left me raw. Opened and vulnerable. Exhaustion and torture took far too much from me. I ran on pure adrenaline. A divine high. Then it had abandoned me, dried and withered into an unappealing reality.
The sound of ears shaking and fury bodies jiggling caught my attention.
I looked around the room and smiled. There they were, standing on the side of the bed watching me. Wex and Vino.
My two constants.
“Good, you’re awake.”
Viktor.
I removed my gaze from the boys and searched the room.
Lounging awkwardly on the floor with one leg bent and the other crossed above it in the air, I met Viktor’s icy blues. His head rested on the wall near the bedroom door. He shut the laptop he had lying on his abdomen when all of our eyes were directed at him.
He couldn’t have been comfortable.
Shifting to see him better, I tugged the comforter higher, but there was no need. I wore a plain soft-white tee and loose boxers.
Figured.
“Hungry?” Viktor asked, and the promise of food stirred my appetite.
“Why are you here?” I scratched the raspy tone out along with the ghost fingers that lingered.
“Lucca asked.” He grinned.
“Andwhereis he?”
“He’ll be here soon.”
“Whereis he?”
His easy smile hardened. “Not here.”
I fell back into the bed, kicking the covers away. My leg muscles were sore and yet, it felt incredible to stretch them out and move around.
I had to get up.
“How long have I been sleeping?” I whispered to the high ceiling.
“A while.”
“Mio Dio, Viktor!” My arms flung out, and I quickly rushed into a sitting position.
Too quickly.
