Everyone gasps at Anastasia’s revelation. Everyone including me. She is a wicked witch, she tried to sabotage me with the dress, and when she failed she used whatever was available to her to harm me. No matter that she promised me she would keep the secret. She is an awful human being. I should have known she was capable of doing whatever it took to hurt me. “What?” Dimitri asks his mother with a scowl on his face. “What are you talking about? What man?” “I don’t know who he is... ask your wife, she had her tongue inside his mouth after all...” Anastasia says before a malicious grin appears on her face. Dimitri turns his attention to me. He is upset, I can see it in his eyes. 

(Victoria’s P.O.V.)While I wait for Dimitri to come back, I can’t stop thinking about Luca’s kiss. I can’t believe a stolen kiss is going to ruin my marriage and probably my entire life. It is not fair that this is happening to me! I don’t even want to kiss Lucas ever again. Lucas was a big part of my past, I was crazy about him for so long but that was before. Now my feelings have changed, I don’t entirely understand why, but whatever I felt for Lucas pales in comparison to what Dimitri makes me feel. Right now, I am disappointed in Dimitri because he denied me the chance to explain the situation to him, but deep down my heart longs for him to reconsider, I’m certain I will forgive him in the blink of an eye if he apologizes and gives me a chance to explain myself.The party ended a couple of hours ago. Everything inside the residential complex is back to its normal quiet and peace. I guess th

I go to the cafeteria although I am not really hungry, I look at the menu considering if I should ask for something to eat but I decide I don’t have the stomach right now to finish a whole meal. Instead, I start to wander around the hospital halls with not much to do. I forgot my cellphone at home, so I can’t even call my family to distract myself. After a while I decide to get a bag of chips from the bending machine, I’d rather have a snack than a whole meal. I put in the coins and press the number, when I bend to take the bag someone grabs me by the waist and presses me hard against his body. I startle, but I immediately know who it is. “I can’t stop thinking about you,” Lucas whispers to my ear. I hit him on the ribs with my elbow to force him to release me. Lucas takes his hands off of me but just mom

Once Kirill and Anastasia are gone I look for a notepad and I write the way I am supposed to give Dimitri the pills in case I forget. Then I go up to our bedroom. Dimitri is soundly asleep. He looks weak and pale, but I guess he just needs to recover, it’s just like Kirill said, soon all of these would be as if it had never happened. Dimitri took off his clothes and toss them on the floor, I guess he was too eager to get in the bed; I put his clothes in the laundry basket. I try to be as quiet as possible so I don’t wake him up. “Once again, I owe you,” Dimitri’s sleepy voice startles me. I turn around to face him and I shake my head no. “Of course I do, the doctor said that if you hadn’t alerted Kirill on time I would have died. You saved me again, Victoria.” “I don’t want you to

Dimitri and I are having a picnic in the central garden of the complex, we prepared sandwiches and lay a blanket over the grass to sit on. The weather is nice today, the sun is shining and there is almost no wind. We chat and laugh carelessly while we drink champagne. Dimitri starts to tell me about the time he spent in London and I hear him mesmerized. “I wish I could go there someday,” I say with a thin smile. “You’ve never been to London?” He asks surprised.“I’ve never been anywhere except here… and a trip to Mexico once when I was a little girl. I was hoping to go to Europe this year but my father had other plans for me,” I say as I point to my wedding ring. “So traveling was no longer an option for me.”Dimitri smiles. “Being m