Chapter 36
Chapter 36
Chapter Thirty–Six
Sephie
I cleaned up and left the bandage supplies on the counter. Everyone had since disappeared, so I
wasn’t sure where they went. I wandered up the stairs to Adrik’s office. I was chewing on my bottom lip
when I walked in, my hands in my pockets. I was completely lost in thought. About Ivan, about Andrei
and Tori, about everything that happened the last three days.
“You okay?” Adrik asked from his desk.
As soon as I saw him, I was snapped back to reality. I smiled warmly at him, taking in his features. He
had ditched his shirt again and was just in jeans sitting at his desk, a stack of papers in front of him. He
leaned back in his chair, pushing it away from his desk. He turned toward me as I walked toward him.
“Did you find your answer?” I asked, standing beside him, and picking at the top few files in one stack.
He shook his head no, letting out a frustrated breath.
“I can come back later. I don’t want to interrupt.”
A smile came over his face. “Give me twenty more minutes? This is really eating at me.”
“Of course,” I leaned down and kissed him, before turning to leave. I heard him blow out another
frustrated breath and curse quietly as I walked out.
7
I found the shirt he was wearing earlier on the end of the bed, so I decided to change into that and lie
down while I waited for him to finish. Between the sprinting and Andrei the personal trainer today, I was
tired. My body was going to be sore tomorrow.
I went to the bathroom. I checked my bruises in the mirror. They were still clearly visible, but they were
starting to fade just a little. A few more days and they would be much lighter.
I climbed into bed, thinking I was just going to comfortably wait for him to be done. I woke up sometime
later. It was completely dark outside. The only light coming from his office. I got up to go check on him,
not even sure what time it
was.
When I walked to the door of his office, he was hunched over his desk, pouring over a file. I hesitated,
not knowing whether I should interrupt him when he looked like he might’ve found his answer. Or at
least gotten closer. I leaned on the doorway, rubbing my eyes. When I opened them, he had caught
sight of me.
“Solnishko. Forgive me. I came in to find you were already asleep, so I came back in here,” he said,
leaning back in his chair and turning toward me again. He had changed into pajama pants but kept his This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.
hatred for shirts alive and well.
“Why would I need to forgive you? You’re working. You have a lot of responsibility. I can’t be mad at
that,” I said, walking toward him. He motioned for me to come to him. As I stepped closer to him, he
pulled me onto his lap, so that I was straddling him.
“You’re so different,” he said. His hands immediately running over my legs and under my shirt.
“Different like ‘she might be touched in the head‘ different?” I asked, in my best southern accent.
He laughed. “All of the women I’ve dated in the past hated when I worked. They always complained
when I worked or tried to distract me from it. It made me want to work more to avoid them. You? You try
not to bother me, even though I want nothing more than for you to bother me. I want to ditch work, just
to be with you. It was torture to have to be away from you today. I’ve never felt that way about any
woman before.”
I felt the goosebumps rising on my skin as I listened to his words and his hands continued to roam
under my shirt. I didn’t really know how to respond. I chewed on my bottom lip, trying to come up with
words.
I heard him groan low. His thumb swiped my bottom lip as he said, “you know what that does to me,
solnishko.”
I grinned at him. I yawned suddenly, still not completely awake, and stretched. “Did you find your
answer?”
“Da. Finally,” he said, as he stood up, with me still straddling him. I just wrapped myself around him as
he turned the light off and walked us to the bedroom.
“What time is it?” I asked, yawning again.
“Around 2, I think,” he said as he placed me gently on the bed. I moved over so he could climb in
behind me. He pulled me back to him, pressing his body against mine.
I sighed, “you’re so warm.”
“Too warm?”
“No, perfect warm,” I said as I drifted off to sleep again.