23

Jealousy

Margaret

I was really bored in Nikolay's room.

After making love so intensely, he had to go to work, and I stayed tossing and turning in bed. Tired of that, I showered and got dressed, but I needed to get out of those four walls and, in the process, analyze the situation.

I was starting to like Nikolay to the point where I felt guilty for lying to him, to the point where Mike was beginning to take a back seat. I was aware that for Nikolay, it was just a game, but the worst part was that I enjoyed playing with him, and it was starting to consume me.

One of the things that had me more blocked was that he had called me Margo for the first time, the way he preferred to call me, leaving that cold tone to refer to me.

I couldn't go on like this any longer, and after asking one of his guards where Nikolay was, I went to find him in his office.

On the way, I ran into the woman we had dinner with, who, if I remembered correctly, was named Jennifer, and according to my instincts, she