Chapter 11

Eliana:

I stared at the wall in front of me as I sat in the bedroom, waiting for Vladimir. The anger that I felt at both myself and the man who thought that he had every right to break me was one that I couldn’t just easily get over, and knowing Vladimir; I knew that things wouldn’t just slide like that.

I knew that he would mostly be furious with what Lorenzo said and tried to do. But he was a lot calmer than I was at that point, controlling his every emotion as not to break the bastard’s face.

The door was knocked twice before he walked inside. He closed the door before he walked toward me, his steps quick before he threw the file on the bed and pulled me in for a hug. Vladimir kissed the crown of my head, letting his lips linger there for a few seconds “I’m so sorry”

His voice was above a whisper as he spoke, and I had a feeling that his regret had something to do with the fact that he took a glimpse of the hardship I lived through when he wasn’t here. Lorenzo was a cold man, one t