The Cost of the Forbidden (Irresistible Russian Tycoons) by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli [Marinelli, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
Published: 2015-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

SEV NEVER TOLD anyone this.

Ever.

It was one of those private pains that for Sev had been better dealt with alone.

He just didn’t want Naomi to have to deal with it alone, though, and so he worked out how best to tell her what had happened to him.

‘You’re right I don’t let others know about me very much...well, not the private stuff...’

‘I beg to differ—I order condoms for you. I’ve dumped two women on your behalf...’ She tensed at his emotional approach, trying to keep things light, to somehow keep back because, even though she had spent three months wanting to know more, suddenly he felt too close.

It was going to be hard enough already—saying goodbye.

What would it be like to know more about him and then be apart?

‘You don’t have to tell me.’

‘I will, though.’ He looked at her sad brown eyes, which had always melted him, and he knew why now.

He had spent his adulthood avoiding feelings yet lately he felt like a Bunsen burner had been turned on under his emotion button and he just wanted her to feel better, or rather not so alone in this.

He lay on the bed beside her, on his back, and unlike in her apartment it wasn’t a smooth move. Yes, she was naked under the sheets, but it mattered little. This conversation was way more intimate than sex and the closest he had ever been with another.

Sev turned his head to face her. ‘Do you remember when I spoke about the computer in the office at home and you picked up on it?’

‘The one at your school?’

‘You were right,’ Sev said. ‘There was an office where I lived. I was raised in an orphanage.’

She just looked back at him.

‘I didn’t know if I had parents.’ He couldn’t properly tell her a little without telling her a lot. ‘There were four of us who grew up together,’ Sev said. ‘We were as good as brothers and we spoke about everything but never that.’

‘What?’

‘That dream, that hope of being a part of a family.’

He saw her mouth move as if she was about to cry again.

‘I get it,’ Sev said. ‘Daniil and Roman were twins and so, though we were all close, they were true brothers. Then there was Nikolai and I. He felt like my twin—we were the other person in the other’s world and we looked out for each other. All four of us said that we didn’t care who our parents were and that we didn’t care if no one chose to adopt us. I said it all the time but I know I was lying and, looking back, I guess that they were too. Daniil finally did get adopted. He said he didn’t want to go but, I’m sure, only because it meant leaving Roman.’

‘They split up the twins?’ Naomi asked, and Sev nodded but he tried not to dwell on it and to tell Naomi only what was relevant.

‘Before that, though, I was good at reading and I would read stories to them at night.

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