Chapter 56

I didn’t want to continue asking her; Nika didn’t seem to have much patience with me. Would she still be angry about that matter? Or was it something else? Then it hit me: she also knew everything her father and the other wolves thought, what Ivan and I had just discussed. What if she was upset with me for that? It made me angry, suddenly. Because she didn’t understand anything, from where I was seeing it.

From my small point of view, it seemed to me that she was just acting like a cold, professional bitch when she should be putting herself in Ivan’s shoes and at least trying to understand what he had been through in Alaska, what was happening to him even in that moment. It wasn’t his fault that I was unconsciously tired of being alone and hurting and needed to occupy my mind with something, or someone. He was not guilty of having two beautiful children whom I wanted to protect even with my own life.

It wasn’t his fault either that my sad person reminded him so much of h