Chapter 14

I stare at him, stupefied and holding my breath. My heart is hammering in my chest, and my hands are trembling because a massive part of me already suspects what he is hiding, even if it seems unthinkable to ordinary people.

Alexi is not ordinary people. He is Alexi Carrero; I know he has far worse capabilities than anything I have witnessed him do. His reputation through the years was not built on a myth.

I see where this is heading, even if I don’t understand why he felt he had to go there and do this.

“Why did you need to find him? He means nothing to me?” I can barely whisper the words out because I’m scared to have him tell me more. I know what’s coming, and I don’t know if I can bear for him to say the words. Unable to keep looking at him as my trembling makes the ice in my glass clink uncontrollably, I follow Alexi’s example and down the burning liquid in one go. Warming my throat and roasting it down to my belly, giving me an instant numb warmth that does n