Sapphire Scars (Uvarov Bratva Book 1) by Nicole Fox

Author:Nicole Fox [Fox, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

27

JUNE

“You’re lying.”

He looks bored, but the harsh angle of his eyebrows betrays a darker emotion. “I have no reason to lie.”

“Except to make Adrian sound like an asshole.”

“He was an asshole.”

“Yeah, well, so are you.”

I get to my feet and storm towards the balcony. For a moment, I think about flinging myself off it. Or better yet, maybe I’ll fling him off it. Anything to get out of his oppressive presence. Anything to get his voice out of my head.

He’s already in your head.

“Shut up!” I say out loud to the ghost I can’t seem to get rid of.

“You need to breathe,” Kolya says, embodying all the calm I seem incapable of corralling. “Would you still rather cling to a fantasy of him, rather than accept the truth of who he was?”

I turn to face Kolya. He’s still in the same position, one leg cocked confidently, his eyes trained on me. “There is more than one truth to a person. Adrian was—”

“Adrian is dead,” he growls, his tone sinister. “It’s time you accept that.”

I shake my head in disbelief. “No wonder he stayed away from the family. Why would he want to have a relationship with someone like you?”

Kolya snorts. “He was more than willing to have a relationship with me when he needed something,” he says. “He just never told you when he decided to pull out the begging bowl.”

My mouth is already open before I realize I have nothing to say. I snap it shut and turn to the side so that he can see only my profile. Not that I can hide from him. The longer I spend with Kolya Uvarov, the more confident I am that there isn’t one single, solitary pocket of shadow on this entire godforsaken planet that he can’t see into.

“It’s not right,” I say quietly, after the silence has seeped into my pores and turned my body cold to the touch. “To attack a dead man, I mean. It’s not right. It’s not like he can defend himself.”

“Why would he need to?” Kolya asks. “With you here to do it for him?”

“I’m his girlfriend!” I cry out, turning to face him again.

“You were. Not anymore. He’s not coming back.”

I recognize the emotion in his voice—anger meets grief—maybe because I’m trying very hard to suppress my own dose of the stuff.

“I have a right to mourn.”

His blue eyes flash with fury, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what he has to be so angry about. Adrian may have stolen his story, but Kolya doesn’t seem like the kind of man who’d be so infuriated by something like that.

“Is that really why you fell in love with him?” Kolya asks suddenly. “That story?”

I feel the color rush to my face. I try to hide my blush behind the answer. “Yes,” I mumble. “I mean, it wasn’t the only reason. But it was a part of it.”

Kolya shakes his head. I notice how his jaw tightens, his fingers clench. Like he’s trying to hold himself back.

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