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Chapter 44: The Space Between Sessions

ผู้เขียน: Elizabeta Koritnik
last update วันที่เผยแพร่: 2026-01-24 23:33:59

Milena Dragovic

Progress looked good on paper.

That was the problem.

Three weeks passed, then four, marked by calendar blocks and tidy session notes. Alexander arrived on time when he arrived at all. When he didn’t, the cancellations came early, framed professionally, routed through Coach Jansen or a brief, neutral email. No excuses. No explanations that invited follow-up.

Just absence.

When he was there, he was present in the way disciplined men are present. Still, attentive, contained. He spo
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    Milena Dragovic Alexander didn't argue. Not a word of protest. Not a flicker of resistance in those dark eyes.The silence between us felt heavier than the humid air pressing against my skin. He studied the alley, his head cocked slightly to one side like a predator calculating distance. The distant hum of traffic pulsed two streets over.When he finally nodded, the movement was precise."You're right."Those two words shocked me more than the spray of bullets had. Alexander Li admitting someone else might know something he didn't?He closed the gap between us, his cologne, sandalwood and something like amber filling my nostrils as he leaned in. His voice dropped to barely above a whisper."If someone truly wanted you in the ground, you'd be there already. They had their chance in the garage."I felt my forehead crease. "Three armed men with military-grade rifles seems like more than a warning shot.""Yes." His expression remained unnervingly placid. "But if they meant to finish the

  • The War Between Us   Chapter 110: The Cost Of Standing Together

    Milena Dragovic The instant the first attacker’s shoulder appeared at the edge of the pillar, Alexander was already on his feet, arm extended, pistol leveled in a straight line from his heart to the threat. “Alexander!” I screamed. Two quick shots cracked from the pistol in his hand. Precise. Controlled. The first bullet took the man in the neck. The second finished him before he could finish falling. I just froze and watched, because that’s what I’d been trained to do. Watch, observe, remember. The other two men scattered between the rows of parked cars. Alexander moved with them, reading their strategy in real time, using each car’s mass and door as both cover and trap. The next exchange of gunfire was a blur of ricochets and shattered windows. He never wasted a shot. Each time he fired, it was to end a possibility, not simply to scare. He grabbed the door of the nearest SUV and slammed it shut, using the metal frame as cover while he advanced. The second man fi

  • The War Between Us   Chapter 109: The Cost Between Us

    Milena DragovicWe reached the car in silence. I slid into the passenger seat and drew the door shut. The day’s chaos coming down on me in waves. In the car, the air was still, as if we’d breached a vacuum.Alexander turned to face me, and for the first time since the night began, I watched surprise fracture his composure.Not because I had disagreed with him.Because I had understood the board.For a moment the tension between us shifted, something unspoken passing between us like static.Then Alexander’s attention snapped past me.Toward the shadowed garage entrance. Another vehicle’s headlamps had ignited, then cut off, vanishing.He went perfectly still, his whole expression flattening into an unreadable mask that suggested either total calm or complete disaster.“What?” I asked, voice too sharp, betraying that the stakes had shifted.He didn’t reply, not with words, not right away. Instead, he leaned forward, spine perfectly straight, and peered out through the windshield. For a

  • The War Between Us   Chapter 108: The Cost Of Us

    Milena DragovicMy father’s smile lingered for a moment after Alexander spoke, as if it were an afterimage of some private joke he’d already played on us. But it wasn’t approval, not even the satisfaction of a well-played hand; it was assessment, and it sharpened the air between us. He leaned back in his chair, not a casual gesture but a deliberate recalibration, the way a diver draws breath before plunging into unknown depths.“Prepared,” he repeated softly. The word hung in the air, as heavy and delicate as spun glass. I waited for him to shatter it.He looked from Alexander to me, his gaze flicking but not lingering, as if he was reading progress notes only he could see.Then he looked from Alexander to me, weighing something I couldn’t see.“Good,” he said at last, the word a placeholder that meant nothing and everything.Alexander didn’t react.He simply waited.My father turned his glass slightly on the table, watching the light refract through the water.“Gabriel,” he said afte

  • The War Between Us   Chapter 107: The Cost Of Alliances

    Milena DragovicThe silence that settled after my father’s last word.Not uncomfortable.Measured.My father had made his move. The board had spoken. Gabriel had offered his solution.And now the room waited to see how the pieces would respond.For a moment, no one spoke.That was when Alexander moved. Not much, just a gentle recline into the back of his chair, the motion so smooth it could have been read as indifference.He let one arm rest on the table, fingers splayed with the ease of a man who never needed to raise his voice or his hand to command attention.Calm.Composed.Deliberate.When he spoke, his voice was quiet enough that the room seemed to lean in.“With respect,” he said, the phrase so perfectly measured I could almost see the ruler in his mind, “I think Gabriel is misreading the situation.”My father’s gaze sharpened. Not a glare, but more like the focusing of a microscope. The old man enjoyed nothing so much as being surprised, especially by someone he didn’t entirel

  • The War Between Us   Chapter 106: The Cost Of Leverage

    Milena DragovicMy father had always known how to make silence feel like a weapon.The moment he finished speaking, the room went perfectly still.Not the polite quiet of an expensive restaurant. Not the muffled calm of a private dining room. This was something else entirely. A kind of vacuum that swallowed sound and forced every word to carry more weight than it should.He finally spoke, and though his voice was measured, every syllable seemed to echo. “I am told you have something they want.”I didn’t answer him.Not immediately.Across the table, my father watched with the patient curiosity of a man observing an experiment he had already predicted the outcome of. His expression didn’t change. His posture didn’t shift. If someone had photographed the moment, it would have looked like a perfectly normal family lunch.But I knew him.This was the part where he waited.Beside me, Alexander hadn’t moved. I could feel the quiet heat of his attention without looking at him, the way a stor

  • The War Between Us   Chapter 56: The Distance That Yielded

    Milena Dragovic I nodded and turned toward my bag, the weight of the moment thick on my tongue. There was a protocol to follow.Inside was the blindfold. The same one I’d used on junior boxers a long time ago and neurotic NBA hopefuls. It was supposed to be a tool of focus. I pulled it out and let

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  • The War Between Us   Chapter 58: The Distance I Broke

    Alexander Li ChenI didn’t leave because I wanted to. I left because if I stayed another second, I wouldn’t have trusted myself to stop. The door from the gym office to the hall was barely wider than my shoulders, and I hit it too hard with the side of my fist, the metal vibrating under my skin. I

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  • The War Between Us   Chapter 60: The Distance That's Closing

    Milena DragovicThe first warning came from my brother.It wasn’t dramatic. He didn’t call in the middle of the night or demand I come home. He didn’t mention names or threats or anything concrete enough to grab onto.He just asked, “Are you being careful lately?”Which, coming from my brother, was

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  • The War Between Us   Chapter 59: The Distance I Tried To Keep

    Alexander Li ChenThe message came three days after the kiss.Not immediately. Not in the heat of consequence, which would have been sloppy. Whoever sent it understood patience. They waited until the city had settled back into routine, until my pulse had normalized, until even Rayven had stopped ho

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