Cora

"I knew there was something different about you" he rasps out looking at me and I just look at my intertwined fingers, Dimitri had just left the room

"You like him don't you"? He asks and I open my mouth before closing it back and nodding

"Okay" he says making me look at him in surprise

"O..okay"? I ask and he just shrugged

"What do you want me to say Cora? I can't tell you what to do" he says looking at me "but I want to ask you something, if I wasn't taken and you weren't pregnant with his child, do you think I would have had a chance"? He asks making me think long and hard.

It's a good question And maybe, just maybe he really would have had a chance with me

"Maybe" I mutter and he nods We both stay silent "How long"? He asks making me look at him "how long has it been going on"?

"Four days" I whisper out

"Back in Moscow......" I cut him off because I know what he wants to ask

"No, I never had anything for him back then" I whisper out and he nods "You're not mad"? I ask and he shrugs

"Why should I be? I'm heartbroken but I'm not mad, you don't choose the people you like, it just happens, so no I'm not mad you like my cousin" he says with a small smile

I send him one back, before placing my hand in his and giving it a gentle squeeze

"I can tell he likes you too" he mutters

"How do you know that"? I ask

"I've known Dimitri all my life and I can tell when he cares about someone, and plus he's not really subtle when it comes to hiding his feelings" he says making me laugh

"So all that time I was in the basement, you guys were working together"? He asks and I nod with my lips in a tight line

"Yep"

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Dimitri

I don't know how I'm going to face Ivan or what I'm going to tell him but I do know that I'm not letting go of Cora.

The things I feel for her won't let me. They've been inside for over an hour, I wonder what they're talking about.

The door suddenly open and Cora comes out

"Hey" she whispers and I give her a nod

"Hey, you okay"? I ask taking her hand in mine and she nods

"He wants to see you" she tells me, I can't read her to know what they talked about, she squeezes my hand before giving me a smile

"Go, I'll be out here waiting" she whispers

I let go off her and walk towards the door before gently opening it, Ivan is sitting on the bed.

I walk in and stand in front of him, neither of us saying anything, I can feel tension in the air but I don't even know what to say.

"So you and Cora"? He asks and I just nod not finding the right words to use "You like her"? He presses

"I do" I breathe out

"Was it before or after you touched her"? He asks swallowing hard

"After, and I didn't do it to hurt you, it just kind of happened" I mutter looking at him

"Would you let her go if I asked you to"? He asks making my eyes snap to his, what the hell?

Like hell I will, I'm not letting her go for anyone "Ivan..." He cuts me off

"Would you"? He presses and I run my hands through my face

"I'm sorry Ivan but I can't, I don't just like her, I have feelings for her, feelings that aren't going anywhere anytime soon" I explain and he just nods

"Would you promise not to hurt her"? He asks

"Jesus Christ Ivan, what are you? Her father"? I groan out

"Just promise me Dimitri, that you're not going to hurt her" he says looking at me and I breathe out

"I promise Ivan, I'll never do anything to hurt her, intentionally or not" I say and he nods before giving me a smile

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"How is he"? She asks scooting over so I have space on the couch with her, I pull her close to and wrap my hands around her waist

"He'll live" I mutter and she laughs a bit before going serious again

"While I was going through Enzo's study, I found something" she says before pulling out a USB "it was stashed with a file on Fabio, it might be something useful, I don't know" she says handing it to me.

I look at her then the tiny thing in my hand, I take my laptop from the table and turn it on before putting the USB on it.

She was right, there are a lot of information here about Fabio But they're basically useless now, because he's dead

I notice a strange file with my father's name on it, and I click on it and open it. And there it was

"What is it"? She asks looking from the laptop screen to my face

"Conversation between my father and Fabio" I mutter, there were a few voicemails too

I go through all of them, including the voicemail and by the time I'm done, I can't even breathe.

He did it My father ordered the hit on Vera. He used Fabio as a cover

All those months that he'd kept telling me we'd find her, watching me suffer. He was behind it all

I know my father never liked the idea of me falling in love, but I never thought he'd go this far. He always told me love makes you weak, but then killing the woman I love, that was low even for him.

I feel Cora wrap her hands around me "Are you okay"? She whispers and I breathe out

"I'm fine, it's all just too much to take"

All these years, I thought Fabio wanted to get to me that was why he killed her, not knowing my own father was the Mastermind to all of it, because he thought she made me weak.

He's lucky he's dead, because if he was alive, he'd have wished for death with what I just found out.

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My hands rests on her waist as I squeeze it gently, slipping my hand inside her top, she parts her lips slightly and I push my to guess into her mouth.

She tugs at my hair, and graze her teeth against my bottom lip. Fuck she's going to be the death of me.

"Come with me" I whisper huskily

"What? She asks panting

"Come with me to Moscow" I breathe out and she looks at me for a while as if assessing me

"I... I can't, I can't just leave everything and go with you" she whispers and I take a strand of her hair twirling it in my fingers

"You can, just say you'll come with me, please" I mutter

"Dimitri..." I cut her off with my index finger on her lips

"Shhhh, you don't have to decide now, we'll leave in four days, take all the time you need, just think about it okay" I tell her and she nods before I crash my lips on hers again.

Since that day we got Ivan out, she never went home again, she said she couldn't stand to be around her sister.

So she's been with me With us And now we will be leaving to Moscow in four days, I can't leave her here

I want to take her with me. Especially knowing she's pregnant with my child It's a risk I'm not willing to take.

Okay, this is the last chapter 😁😁

I'm going to miss writing about this book. Epilogue will be next

Happy tears guys 😁😊