“For what it’s worth, I’m sorry, too,” I say shyly. “I put you in an impossible position. I wasn’t thinking about you, or what this would do to you, or to your relationship with Matvey. If anybody deserves an apology here, it’s you.”
I stroke my baby for courage as I speak. Nugget is a comforting weight in my arms—no, May, I remind myself. I’ll need to get the hang of that. Can’t keep calling her like food forever, can I?
But it brings back so many memories…
Next to me, Yuri shakes his head. “I put you in an impossible position. I don’t know if… if Matvey told you yet, but I…”
I watch his face twist into an expression of pain. The petty part of me says I should let him stew a little longer. Unintentionally or not, he was the catalyst for my falling out with Matvey—the spark that lit th
