Brad curls up on himself. He’s whimpering a whole stream of curses, but the only part that makes sense to me is “… isn’tover.”
And as Nikita herds me to the car, I know he’s right. Somehow, he’ll twist everything that happened here today. He’ll say Iattacked him, that I kept his son from him. He’ll bribe witnesses and do whatever it takes to win.
I don’t realize I’m texting Yulian until my finger hits Send.
Brad came to the school.
Five words on my screen, and I’m running.
“Boss!” Maksim calls as I dive for the elevator, but I can’t spare him the attention. All my thoughts are for Mia, for Eli.
And for the mudak who calls himself his father.
Rage explodes in my chest. If he so much as touched them, they’ll never find all of him. I’ll scatter him like a goddamn
