If I hadn’t just spent some of my pent-up energy with Natalia, I might’ve knocked him across the room for that. I’ve flayed men alive for saying far less. As it is, I pretend not to have heard him. “The same goes for Leonty. If I find you’ve so much as whispered an insult in his direction, there will be consequences.”
He sags. “Why protect him?”
“Because, like Mila, he’s more valuable to me than you are.”
“He’s nothing more than a vor,” Viktor hisses. “You have plenty more where he came from.”
“He’s a vor with a critical mission. I won’t trust just anyone to protect the mother of my child.”
It’s only when Viktor’s jaw drops that I realize he didn’t even know.
Idiot that he is, he’s paid no attention to the chaos of the last month. I hid nothing—he’s just too stupid to have seen the s
