Chapter 43

Elena:

I sat on one of the benches, taking a deep breath as I tried calming myself down, wanting to calm my racing heartbeat and my shaking hands.

The anger that I felt was one that I never expected to actually have to deal with. Mostly because I didn’t know how to deal with it to begin with. The day has been messed up to begin with, and now Lia simply added salt to the wound, and I didn’t know how to handle it.

I knew that I was being followed by Viktor, but I didn’t have the energy to turn and face the man. And mostly, I believed that it might have been Alvize who asked him to follow me in the first place. My mate wouldn’t want me to be alone in such a situation, that was something that I knew, and if not Viktor, Artur or Nikolay would have followed me here anyway.

Alvize’s scent hit my nostrils as I heard a car pulling up behind me. He got out and looking down at his shadow, I saw him nodding at Viktor before he approached me.

He didn’t say a word for a few seconds, and instead,