Oh, to have a man down bad for you like Mikhail...
something weary, wounded, and quietly begging for this all to end.Then I finally decided to speak. I couldn't bear seeing him this way. He had given up all hope. He looks like this because he doesn't want this, it was my job to give him hope."I will make things right, I promise you." I whispered,
And at the end of the aisle, Mikhail stood waiting. Tall. Imposing. Devastatingly handsome in a way that made every woman swoon and every man wary. But I didn’t see the man who once touched me like I was made of stars. I saw the man Emory had crafted from vengeance and pain. I saw the cage I was abo
L A N AFew hours before...No, I couldn't do this.I will never forgive myself if I go through with this. It frowned upon everything my parents had instilled in me. Every culture, every moral.It was an hour until my wedding, Emory had seized my phone, and took everything that would make me implica
Mikhail stood still at the altar. Regal. Handsome. Silent.His eyes didn’t move once. He looked through Lana, like she was glass. His jaw was tight, his expression unreadable, carved from the same cold stone that surrounded us in the towering chapel. He didn’t offer her a smile. He didn’t reach for
E M O R YThe ceremony was at sunset.It was finally time to drive to the venue of the wedding, at a big castle-like church. The decorated car was parked outside, ribbons and white orchids weaved through the handles, a string of golden bells tied to the back bumper to sing the beginning of a new cha
"You think you’re the only one who’s scared? You think I didn’t cry the first night I realized what I’d have to do to get Sebastian back? I watched that bitch Laura win his heart. I watched him smile at her the way he used to smile at me, and I swallowed it. I bled inside, but I waited. I worked. I