I peeked through the doorway just in time to see the blonde woman, Nika, give Alexander a fierce slap.
Her violent reaction scared me so much that I immediately stepped back and pressed myself against the stairway wall to hide. My heart was pounding. What was happening there? Instinctively, my hands protected the baby I was holding and I stayed very still—but it was very likely they had already seen or heard me arrive.
I couldn’t fool their hypersensitive senses… could I?
Apparently, yes.
“You know why that was,” the woman’s voice said, cold and firm. “Now I beg your forgiveness.”
Alexander took a while to answer, but finally did, very patiently:
“Don’t be foolish. I don’t need to forgive you anything. I deserve it.”
“You mustn’t leave. You shouldn’t abandon us like this,” she insis
