Natalia & AndreiNatalia“Whose body was burned during your funeral all those years ago? I deserve to know.”I sat back on my heels and stared at Andrei. The question wasn’t entirely unexpected—he was bound to ask eventually—but the timing caught me off guard. We had just buried a baby deer that Andrei had had to put out of its misery with his bare hands.Although, I supposed it was the perfect segue, wasn’t it? Death often gets one thinking about death.Andrei patiently waited for an answer. His eyes were earnest.I considered lying, but what would be the point? He already knew I had faked my death. The details of how I’d done it hardly mattered now. So long as he didn’t find out about the twins or that I suspected him in the attempts on my life, what did it matter?And a small part of me did, admittedly, feel guilty. I remembered watching from a distance as Andrei stood over the pyre, his face crumbling in on itself. I recalled his drunken behavior afterwards, too.Even if he’d only
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