Chapter 35

“So, you really thought he was dead?” I snapped, after a while.

“Why wouldn’t I believe it?” Ami retorted, widening his sly smile. “You were crazy about that woman. I even considered the idea that you had committed some ridiculous suicide pact, or something like that. I remember that well. There was a lot of talk about the topic. You were like the damn Romeo and Juliet version of Beauty and the Beast. Except for the magic junk, everything about you and Anya was a drama from start to finish.”

“That hurt me, Ami,” I joked, in a better mood.

“I imagine not as much as all that,” he said, pointing to my face and the bandages.

“No, not so much.”

We looked at each other in silence for another couple of minutes, until Ami sobered up and told me:

“I’m sorry for your wife. I’m truly sorry. Everything that has happened is horrible. I spoke to Nika before coming, and she told me everything. I’m not married yet, but if something happened to my partner,