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After a few minutes, Adrik returned without Andrei. My eyes went wide, “Did she kill Andrei?” He smirked, but shook his head no. He walked to the couch, pulling me up. He sat and pulled me back down to rest my head in his lap. His hands immediately went to my hair. He looked at me for a moment, his eyes smiling at me.
He sighed. “Tori will no longer be working here.” He looked from me to Misha. I glanced at Misha, shocked. He did not look as shocked as I was. He looked thoughtful.
“I think that was the best decision, Boss. Who wants to order takeout?” he said, grinning.
I looked up at Adrik, still shocked. “You fired her? For that? She was just angry.”
Misha coughed. “She was more than angry, Sephie. She’s always been jealous of you. It’s clear as day to all of us.”
Adrik twirled one of my curls around his finger. “That’s the thing about anger, solnishko. What is said in anger is usually brutal honesty. She just revealed how she really feels about you. I will not tolerate that kind of disrespect of you.”
My mouth fell open. I was so shocked at their response. “How does Andrei feel about this?”
“You can ask him when he gets back from escorting her off the property,” he said, that sly smirk on his face. “Why is this so difficult for you?” his fingers lightly tracing over my face and neck.
“I…Well…I don’t know. I mean, this happened all the time with Max. But he would choose the other girls over me every time. He’d disappear for a few weeks, then he’d be back once he broke up with them.”
“I told you, Sephie. Your friend is not a smart man,” his smirk turning into a small smile.
Misha, sitting on one of the cabinets, lamented, “Ivan is gonna be so happy when they get back. He hated Tori. Even before her and Andrei got together.” He laughed. “He would purposely be extra grumpy around her because he knew she was terrified of him.”
Adrik smiled. “Ivan has always been a good judge of my previous girlfriends. He was always the first one to see their other sides.”
“His demons pull their demons out for the world to see. He’s very good at that. He just doesn’t always realize that his demons work for him now, instead of against him,” I said.
Misha cursed under his breath. I looked at his shocked face. “What?” I asked.
“I’ve never heard him described that way. It’s perfect.”
“Shall we send for Vinny’s tonight? I have a meeting next week that you’re going to need to be present for. I need to make sure you’re paid up for it,” Adrik said, grinning.
“I think Andrei needs to pick his breakup dinner,” I said, laughing. “It’s the least I can do for wrecking his relationship status.”
Adrik clicked his tongue. “You didn’t wreck anything, solnishko. You saved him.”
Andrei came to the office after almost an hour. I was still lying with my head in Adrik’s lap, his hands still running through my hair. Misha was still sitting on the cabinet. We were talking about random things, wondering aloud where exactly Viktor and Ivan were in their journey across the ocean, while listening for screaming from downstairs.
I was expecting him to look sad, but truthfully, he looked quite happy about his situation.
“Bubba, you don’t look as sad as I was expecting you to look.”
He sighed, as he sat in one of the chairs across from the couch. “I’m not sad at all, spider monkey. This has been building for a while. She’s always been jealous of you. Like, weirdly so.”
Misha snapped his fingers, pointing at me. “Told you.”
“Why would she be jealous of me? I’m the one who got you two talking!”
“I don’t know. Like I said, it was weird. It never mattered how much I reassured her there was no reason to be jealous, she was still jealous. Like me telling her there was no reason to be jealous actually made her more jealous. I never understood,” Andrei said, rubbing his face with his hands.
“Why are women so complicated?” I groaned.
“I’m fairly sure if you could find the answer to that question, you would also be able to solve all of the world’s problems,” Andrei said laughing. “But first, let’s order takeout since we just got rid of our chef.”
“Are you sure you don’t want some of that incredibly finely murdered chopped broccoli downstairs?” I asked, turning my head to smile at him.
He looked at me, astonished, “I have never seen vegetables so abused.”
Misha laughed, “Ivan, Viktor, and Stephen are going to be mad they missed this.”
