Ring

- Dimitri Sokolov:

I still can't wrap my mind around what's happening right now, or maybe, more specifically, what he's doing.

Dimitri's not supposed to be this close to me.

He's not supposed to be standing here, touching me, offering to help me fix everything I've broken.

And yet, here he is, guiding me, pulling me from the wreckage I created, making me feel something again when I didn't think I was capable of it.

He doesn't have to say it, but I can see the frustration in his eyes, the way he watches me like he wants to fix me like he wants to heal all the shit that's been rotting inside me since I met Niko and find out about my obsession over him.

He's right.

I've been angry—hell, I've been angry for so long that I can't remember when I wasn't.

But I didn't realize how much of that anger was rooted in fear, in insecurity.