CHAPTER 123 - Peeping Avery

  (Dmitri’s Thoughts)

  When the door finally closes as Nikolai takes her home, the emotion I’ve been holding suddenly poured out.?

  “I am sorry, Avery. I am sorry. I don’t deserve you. I can’t let you suffer anymore,” I bow down almost kissing the ground, I feel wrecked, damaged beyond repair.?

  I cry my heart out until I almost pass out. Then two warm hands embrace me and collect me from the ground. He lets my head rest on his lap as he strokes my hair and cries with me.?

  He says nothing but his empathy goes with me. He hugs me tighter as I gasp for more air.?

  “I don’t think I can leave without her, I don’t think I can. How can I, when the two women I loved the most in my life are now gone?” I whisper and mumble.?

  “I’ve been hurt before, too, Dee. You know that right? That’s when I realize women will just walk out on me, maybe that’s why I prefer loving men, we don’t walk out from each other, do we?” then he warmly smiles while tears are falling from his eyes.?