I nod. “Right. Because if you’d really been there the whole night, you would have seen that I was on a date with another man, and Isaak was dining with some other people. He left them to come save me from my horrible date.”
Maxim sighs. “Whatever. It doesn’t matter, Cami. Don’t you see? My cousin has never approached a woman before. He usually just has women come to him. The fact that he even felt the need to approach you meant you were important.”
“And you decided to take advantage.”
“I was trying to avenge my father, Cami,” he says, almost pleadingly. “Isaak’s father killed mine. Vitaly killed his own brother to steal a title that was never his to take.”
His tone is begging for understanding, but I’m not sure I can give it to him today. Maybe not tomorrow, either. Or ever.
“I was a
