•Evangeline•╌─═❁═─╌I lay in my bed, too sore, too tired to move. I replayed Nikolai's words again and again but I still couldn't make sense of them. He can't end our marriage this way. I wasn't ready to let Nikolai go. I wasn't... I love him way too much to just let this all go. What is wrong with him? There is something that he isn't telling me. I can feel it. It's not something I said, no, it's way too small of a matter for him to act this way. There must be something... something. My alarm went off and I got startled out of my thoughts, I frowned as I looked at the time. I didn't sleep a wink the whole night. After Nikolai left, I kept thinking about him, where I went wrong, where we went wrong, and what could have possibly happened for him to act this way. I lazily got out of bed, to get ready for college. I was naked already, I didn't bother to wear clothes again last night. I smelled like him, he was all over me, and every part of my body smelled like his expensive cologne

•Evangeline•╌─═❁═─╌I stared mindlessly at the giant metal gates. They were huge but you could see the road ahead from between its slits. I was sitting on the steps outside the front door where Lorenzo mostly patrolled. He stood behind me right now, I could hear him sigh every two seconds. "He is not coming, Mrs. Costello" My head snapped in his direction, my lips parted, and I got up and faced him. "Do you know where he is?" Lorenzo opened and closed his mouth before he shook his head. "Stop waiting for him, Mrs. Costello. He has no plan of getting back to you" I swallowed thickly. "Where is he?" "I'm not allowed to say..." "Where is he, Lorenzo" "My loyalties lie with Don Niko, Madam" "And I'm his wife, you should be loyal to me too!" "I'm loyal to you, I will protect you with my life but I don't take orders from you. I only take orders from your husband" I nodded, Lorenzo was one of his closest men, it's understandable that he will not do anything without Nikolai's order

•Nikolai•╌═❁═╌I watched through the glass as Bianca and Lorenzo dragged her away like a rag doll, that's how fucking drunk she was. I gripped the glass tumbler filled with whiskey that was in my hands, the urge to knock some sense into her was so fucking strong but I couldn't do it.Disrespectful little brat—she had always been one. I can't fucking understand how the fuck am I letting her get away with this. She called me a coward, she called me a fucking coward! Even my enemies know that cowardice isn't in my dictionary but Mrs. Evangeline Costello thinks that I am one. If that's what she thinks about me then I'm gonna let her think that. It will be the perfect revenge for the disrespect she had shown me today, I won't listen to her pleading, and I won't listen to her temper tantrums as well. Ignorance—it will fucking drive her mad, perfect punishment for her brattiness. The little show she put on tonight was to get my attention. This stupid girl has no idea that she already has

•Evangeline•╌─═❁═─╌He turned and an inaudible gasp left my lips. It felt like it had been so many years since I last saw him. He had grown a beard, her blue eyes had darkened as they raked over my body. "How did you get here?" that's the first thing he asked me. "Why did you think that I was Katerina?" He gave his head a shake, brushing his thumb over his lower lip. "Answer my question, Evangeline" I breathed out a sarcastic laugh. "I'm not here to answer your question; I came here to get answers" He let out an amused breath, he leaned his butt against the dresser he was standing in front of and crossed his arms over his chest. "And how do you plan on doing that?" I furrowed my eyebrows. He was acting as if nothing had happened between us, he was acting like the last one and a half months didn't happen, he was acting like he just didn't care about any of it. I took a deep breath in. "Are you cheating on me? Is that why you are doing all this? Is that why you've been so distant

•Nikolai•╌═❁═╌"Niko, she isn't here! I have checked the entire building myself four fucking times, our men are all over the place!!" Marco yelled over the phone. "She isn't here!" I got off my seat. "Well, fucking check the building again! How could you let this happens, Marco? If something happened to her, You are a dead man, you're a fucking dead man!" I hung up and called her cellphone instead. It rang and rang and rang but she didn't fucking pick up. I hung up and called Alessandro. Agitation rolled off me, I needed a fucking drink but I needed my wife more. "Niko?" his cold voice came through the phone. "I want you to track my wife's phone, NOW!""Give me ten minutes" Hanging up, I went out of my office. Did someone get to her? If someone fucking kidnapped her again I'm going to burn the entire fucking New York City to the ground. Shit! How could I let this happen, I fucking promised her I won't let it happen again. I went down the elevator and it annoyed me how fucking s