What are your thoughts about Mikhail? Yay or nay?
He paused, breath shaking, eyes locked on mine.“You and Alina… you are my beginning. You are my redemption. And today, I give you everything I am, because you are everything I’ve ever wanted to be worthy of.”I couldn’t stop the tears, but I didn’t need to. I spoke my vows through them.“Mikhail, I
And I gave her that.Lana got five years with the possibility of parole in two. Michael was sentenced to three and agreed to undergo intensive psychological therapy. Mikhail, despite everything, supported this. He said that while justice was necessary, mercy mattered too. Especially when the damage
E L L EToday marks two months of healing. Mentally, emotionally and physically. Two months of watching our daughter grow, her eyes focusing on our faces, her tiny hands curling around our fingers, her first smile. Two months of learning each other again.The morning sun spills into our bedroom thro
“You kept her safe,” he murmured, brushing a strand of hair from my face. “You didn’t let go.”“I couldn’t,” I whispered. “She gave me a reason to keep breathing.”He tilted his head down, his voice rasping. “And you gave me a reason to keep looking.”For a long, quiet moment, there was nothing betw
“I thought they had done something crazy to you,” he replied. “But I never stopped loving you. Not once.”“I know,” she whispered. “I knew. I just needed to hear it.”Then there was Emily.She stood alone near the altar, her eyes darting to all the others, her hands wringing together like she wasn’t
E L L EThe silence after Emory’s exit hung in the air like fog after a storm, heavy, still, and haunting. The chapel, once filled with gasps and whispers and eyes trained on chaos, now fell into a strange quiet. The kind that only comes after something that should’ve never happened, finally ends.M