Semua Bab Love in Deceit: Bab 31 - Bab 34

I stood frozen by the door long after it clicked shut. My hands were shaking, and the heaviness that started in my fingertips spread up my arms. My throat ached, and my eyes burned. The weight of everything Vladimir had said still echoed in the walls.“You already did,” I had told him. I wasn’t even sure if I meant it.The silence after Vladimir left wasn’t peaceful; it was deafening. But it was what I needed. I needed my eyes shut from the several whispers in my head. I had stopped listening to myself and my voice and became a puppet to the voices in my head.His voice still echoed against the walls, and the worst part was that it wasn’t the words that haunted me. It was the sincerity. The desperation. That trembling thing in his throat when he said he’d wait. I wanted to doubt him, I wanted to hate him more but mostly, I wanted to forget him, not just him, but the whole fiasco that had happened over the months.I wanted relocating to Boston or maybe go to Texas, live by the countrys

Alexei – POVThe silence in his penthouse was too uncomfortable. Too sterile. Like the kind of silence one carries when one's parents promise to take them along for a night out and leave before you can reach for the door. Alexei sat on the edge of the leather couch, his hands resting almost lifeless, his eyes fixed on the marble floor. He had become a slave to the bottle and this was rare for him. But the weight in his chest tonight wasn’t something that even the smoothest scotch could handle.She was gone. He pushed her.He loved her but when he figured she was working for Vladimir, something in him stirred up. Something negative. He saw her as a puppet to exercise control over Vladimir.But instead, he made her run.Not just from Vladimir—but from him. And that was the worst of it all.He hadn’t expected the aftermath to feel like this. Now that she was gone, everything echoed with her absence.He pressed a palm to his face and sighed.He’d won. That’s what he was supposed to bel