Chapter 134: Escaping the Guards

[Erin]

I don’t know if my heart pummeling against my ribs with anticipation that I am incredibly nervous about the notion of us getting married in secret. I tilt my head, looking at the man that turned my life upside down. We are both far from being perfect, nowhere near actually. At the start, we were both people on the opposite side of the pole, impossible to begin with, but right at this moment, I could jump through the highest building with my head first, knowing that he was going to be at the bottom, waiting to catch me, and I would do it over and again just to be with him.

“You’re shaking, doll,” Nikolai noted over my trembling body.

I let out a shaking breath, clouding in front of us, hugging his coat around me. “I am.”

I did try to keep my voice steady, but it didn’t come out well. Instead, I sounded a little bit reluctant and scared.

“Are you having second thoughts?” …and I somehow hurt his feelings.

I vehemently shake my head and assure him that that is not what I had in mi