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“Sacha” My voice reverberated off the walls of the spacious room.
The scene before me was like something out of a boring movie. Sacha sat at the head of a long, gleaming table surrounded by a group of grim-faced men and women.
Papers were scattered haphazardly across the tabletop, each with black legal folders in front of them.
The room went silent, and a large object hit me, bringing me to my knees, my knife-wielding hand wrenched behind my back.
My breaths ached in my chest, my knees again bruised from the hard floors. Chairs scooted back from the table, and each man and woman vacated the room with his simple command.
Silence billowed out around us, save for my heavy breaths and pounding heart.
“Always so desperate for my attention.”
Chapter 67
Sacha
“Lethergo,Dmitri.”
I’d have to admit, seeing him handle her that way had my fists clenching, but the image of her back on her knees before me had my cock hardening. I’d been waiting for this moment since the day I sent her back to her parent’s home.
Dmitri dropped her wrist just as the security team burst through the door. I spun my chair in their direction with Mia at my feet, their ragged breaths the same as hers.
She’d managed to evade them and got past Dmitri without taking a single martial arts class. Impressive.
“Your employment contracts are voided,” I said to the failures standing before me. I glanced at Dmitri. “Except for you.” I turned my attention back to the men with shocked looks on their faces. “Get out.”
The men backed out of my office, and Mia leaned up, her gaze wide-eyed as she held my sacrificial knife towards me, the same one meant to carve out her heart.
“Take it,” she said, her voice steady. “Cut it out and end this torment. Don’t let me wither and die alone.”
Silence held us hostage as I grasped the knife in my hands, then set it on the table.
“I can’t take what I already own,malishka.” I slid the knife down the table, and Dmitri stopped it with his hand. “Leave us.”
Dmitri nodded and exited the room, closing the doors behind him.
“You went through all of this,” I said as she stayed on her hands and knees. “When you could have picked up the phone and said it all.”
She shook her head, her face wincing as she adjusted at my feet. “I needed to see you. I needed you to tell me you no longer wanted me. That I was a festering memory you wanted to pluck from your mind.”
I smirked at her colorful description.
“What if I told you I wanted to do just that?” I paused, watching the hurt and panic lance across her features, her shoulders sagging ever so slightly. “But not for the reason you think,” I growled, my voice low and menacing. “I want to cut it out and preserve it, like a memory frozen in time. Because I never want to forget a single moment with you.”
Her eyebrows shot up in surprise, and her lips parted as she rose on her knees and scooted closer, her hands trembling as they touched my legs.
I exhaled slowly, savoring the warmth of her touch like a drug I’d been craving since the day we met.
“What are you saying?” she pleaded.
“Mia, you’ve always been mine. I’ve waited patiently for you to return, but you needed to make the choice yourself. I couldn’t have you by my side, knowing that you were only there because I willed it.” I pulled her up and settled her on my lap, her legs straddling my sides. “Your happiness is important to me, and if that meant watching you from afar while you were with your precious family, then that’s what I’d do.” I gripped her cheeks and forced her to look at me. “But don’t be mistaken, Mia, you belong to me, and if you chose to stay with your family, then no man would come between that.”
A tear trickled down her cheeks and curled under her chin as my hands came away from her. “I’ve waited so long to hear you say that.”
She swiped her hand up to wipe the tears, but I grabbed her bleeding hand before she could.
“You had to break the glass?”