Ivan by Kristin Alexander

Author:Kristin Alexander [Alexander, Kristin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 31

Emmy

I looked down at my phone as it vibrated. Delaney. I felt an arrow of guilt as I declined it. I just couldn’t do it. My brain shut down at the thought of talking to anyone about what I was feeling. I’d watched Ivan run down the street, yelling something to me as Drew took off, feeling dizzy with sadness and despair and humiliation. I was grateful I’d gotten away.

My phone vibrated again. A text from Ivan. I wanted to not only ignore it, but delete it, but I couldn’t. Unable to help myself, I tapped on it—I had to read it.

Ivan: Emmy, you misunderstood what you saw. I was only talking to that woman to convince her to go back to Russia bc her boyfriend wants her to go back. That’s it. Come back here so I can talk to you.

I rolled my eyes. Technically, he was explaining himself and he was probably upset that I took off, but even his apology text lacked emotional expression. It was hopeless. I thought having sex would change something, he’d seemed so different this morning, but his text seemed so cold and emotionless. I had attached all these expectations to someone who simply had nothing to give.

“Thank you, Drew,” I rasped out, my throat raw from the effort it was taking me to swallow back tears that were pushing to get out. One tear escaped and I swiped at it angrily and took some deep breaths, trying to get myself under control.

Drew was probably the last person I wanted witnessing my breakdown and I had absolutely no desire to explain what was going on. I was sort of hoping he didn’t notice I was a wreck.

“All part of the plan, sweetheart,” he said easily, taking turn after turn out of the neighborhood we were in.

I frowned at his strange response, but too caught up in my own problems to give it proper attention. “Yeah, well, thanks anyway. I just needed to get out of there. I was pretty lucky that you were here,” I said, suddenly frowning as something occurred to me. “Why were you here?” I asked, a sudden knot of suspicion starting to tighten my stomach. Maybe Delaney had reached out to him? Hopefully.

“I was following you.”

I stiffened in shock. “What? Following me? Why?”

His phone rang and instead of answering me, he started speaking rapidly into the phone in another language. A language I was strangely familiar with.

Russian.

Alarm bells went off in my head. I had no idea what they were saying, but I knew there was only one way to interpret this information. Drew spoke Russian. Orlov was Russian.

Before I had fully digested this revelation, Drew turned to me, and I was immediately jolted by his eyes.

They were different.

No longer were they a brilliant blue. No, they were dark brown, nearly black. My mind reeled back to the picture of Orlov that Ivan showed me. The boyish looking man with cold, dark eyes. I shook my head, my

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