Chapter Twenty-Three

Nickolai.

"Do you know that before now you have never called me by my name?" ."Do you know that before now you have never called me by my name?"

The words kept playing over and over and over again in my head. Could it really be that simple? Did I really make her cry by calling her by her name? Was it possible that she had actually liked it when I called her My Love? I have spoken her name countless times, especially in the last couple of hours.

I've never had this much trouble with women before, so why is it that the one woman whom it's supposed to be right with everything is going wrong? Then again the female race will forever be mysterious. From the beginning of time, men have been trying to figure them out but it seems that with every generation there's a new layer and I new mystery to solve.