WHAT HE ERASED
Not disappointment either.
Mostly it was something close to laughter. The specific, slightly hysterical kind that comes after weeks of bracing for impact and discovering the impact had already happened somewhere else entirely, to someone else, in a different decade, for reasons that had nothing to do with you.
Aleksei Volkov had spent two years watching a nineteen-year-old girl. Had built a case, a marriage record, a hidden stake in his company, a letter that said whatever you have taken from her, give it back. Had stepped in front of a truck for both his son and a girl he had decided was extraordinary.
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