Alex felt like shit when Lia said that, but there was nothing he could do to make it right anyway.
He had screwed up. He had failed to keep his promises, and boy, and he had made Lia a lot of promises. Maybe he would keep them someday, maybe, just maybe, but until then, he would regret them slowly on the hospital floor.
His heart was broken, but he had no right to say it out loud.
His Amelia. He felt constricted, yet he couldn't even complain about it. His chest cavity seemed to be failing, and even though he was in the hospital, this was the kind of pain only one person could take away, the very person he had broken more than once—h
The love of his life.
His beautiful love.
"I warned you, Beth. I warned you against putting yourself in danger. I want to beat up Nikolai so badly, but I know he would always listen to you. So tell me, krushka, what the fuck happened. I was gone for just six months.
