Chapter 80

Irina:

“Do you really believe that you are free of me, Irina?” Cosimo asked, walking toward me as I stood in one of the aisles in the supermarket.

The man has been quiet for the past two months, months that I spent looking for my mother. Months that pained me day and night, and though I knew not to show the pain to Kai, I knew that he saw it in my eyes.

“The fact that you managed to slip past the security men tells me that you have done something to them.” I said, looking at the man over my shoulder. I could no longer hear the men around, and I knew that I wasn’t foolish enough to think that they were alive right now.

He walked toward me, standing beside me, and he scoffed, looking me in the eye, clearly reading my body language.

“The fact that YOU are talking with me over your shoulder is something that I am amazed by, but then again, you have changed a lot.” He said, raising an eyebrow at me. “Your loyalty has deviated, and you seem to have fallen in love with the man that you we