Chapter 40 - Mia

My eyes shoot open and fear creeps into my heart when I feel the bed dip behind me. Memories of when Mikhail would silently come into my room suddenly flashed in my mind and I can feel my entire body trembling.

Where am I? Who is in my room?

“Kardia mou…” comes the strained, familiar voice and it takes me a few seconds to register the spicy autumn scent.

I rush to flick on the light on the nightstand, only to come face to face with a bloody Nikolaos laying next to me; he sees me and a wistful smile crosses his lips before his eyes flutter closed.

“Niko!” I exclaim and I reach out to touch him with a trembling hand, but he doesn’t respond. There’s blood splatter on his face, his shirt is torn and singed from where it looks like he’s been stabbed and burned.

There’s the distinct scent of death on him as well as napalm?

I lift up his shirt but find no open wounds, just healed patches of skin from what seems to be bullet holes. Was he shot at with silver bullets?!

“It’s…okay…” he strugg