XXXIX. Karmina

Elena

I run after Vladimir and yell for him to stop, but he doesn't listen. What the fuck just happened? Everything was going great until I asked him about Karmina, and he freaked up.

I finally managed to find him at the lake. He always comes here. I approach him.

“Please, Elena,” he says with a strangled voice. He sounds like he is in pain.

“I just want to understand, that’s all,” I say. “No matter what happened, we will talk about it.”

“You will loath me!” he says with a terrified voice.

Did he really kill someone? But whatever the answer is, I know I won't loath him.

“I would never loath you,” I say.

“Not even when I am guilty of killing an innocent girl?” he asks, his voice full of regret and pain.

“You are my mate, no matter what. Tell me what happened.”

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