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IT was difficult bringing up this topic to Davorin. Mainly, he was on edge the entire day. He was in contact with Dominik—the two of them were trying to track down Bogdan and spent every waking hour on that.
He was irritated by the fact that Bogdan had gone completely off grid. He was trying to calculate precisely when his next strike would be, but by the time that happened, I would be long gone.
Each time I tried to tell him about my plans, I failed. My mouth went dry, my throat tightened, and no words made it out. I couldn’t understand why. It was a plan I’d had for two years at least, and Davorin appearing in my life didn’t change it.
It shouldn’t have changed it.
Yet the mere thought of him not coming with me, or asking me to stay, made me pissed. No one was going to prevent me from leaving, and no one was going to make me stay. I finally had the chance to escape, and I’d be damned if I lost it.
Meanwhile, whilst I was trying to figure out how to tell Davorin about it, I met up with Tiana. She was nosy, and she would’ve poked around. I didn’t need anyone tracking me down, let alone her curious ass.
“I need to tell you something,” she said, biting her bottom lip.
I raised an eyebrow as I sipped on my martini. The bar had no good whiskey options, so I’d settled for a Martini instead. “What is it?”
“I’m dating Nick,” she blurted out.
I tried to remember who Nick was. It took me a solid thirty seconds before I raised both eyebrows in surprise. I’d told her if it was good for her to keep seeing him, she should. However, I never imagined she actually would.
“Seriously? The dead-friend guy?”
Her face was serious. “Please, that’s very… brutal of you to say.”
“It’s the truth,” I defended.
Her shoulders slumped. “Still. Try to be considerate at least sometimes.”
I gave her a knowing look. Not once in my twenty-four years had I been considerate of anyone other than myself. Humans were predators, the worst of the worst. If I didn’t put myself first, no one else was going to, and I didn’t intend to stop thinking like that now.
“Sure,” I replied, trying to get her off my back.
Tiana was one of the very few people who hadn’t properly pissed me off. Usually, those people ended up dead. I’d have had no problem doing the same thing to her; however, over the few years I’d known her, she’d proved to be worth my time, and those people were rare.
“So?” she urged.
“So what?” I was confused.
“I need your opinion on him. You’re someone who knows how to read people well, and I’m not sure he is who he says he is.”
I thought about it for a moment. We’d had two encounters. The first had been on my birthday, at Lunax, where I’d met Davorin for the first time. Nick had been fine, not causing any issues. His eyes had been on Tiana the whole time. And the second had been when his friend had met his inevitable end, and I hadn’t noticed much about him, aside from the fact he was boring as hell.
“No, he won’t hurt you,” I reassured her, before adding, “Although, if you’re uncertain about him, maybe you shouldn’t be in a relationship with him to begin with.”
“That’s true,” she murmured. “But I really like him, and I want to give him a chance.”
“By all means, do it. It’s your life.”
She grinned. “Thank you.”
I sipped on my third Martini in an hour as we continued to chat. Most of it was her telling me how she and Nick had started dating, what their dates had been like, or how he’d kissed her. I had to suppress a yawn.
“Hey, listen,” I interrupted when the topic of Nick began getting on my nerves. “I have something to tell you.”
She paused immediately. “Okay.”
“I’m leaving.”
She was shocked. “Leaving where?”
