Page 25 of Teach Me How To Fly

I took it and she sighed, standing beside me with a nervous expression on her face. I looked down at her and tried to give her a smile. Instead, I felt the well-known burning sensationcrippling around my eyes and I knew the tears were about to roll down my cheeks.

I didn’t want to cry again, yet the feelings were cradling into my soul and drenching it of anything that meant happiness.

“You don’t need to be upset about things like these, my dear,” she whispered and put her hand on mine.

“How could I not?”

My own father wanted to spy on me constantly instead of listening to Maksen and hiring someone I could’ve actually talked to about my issues. The nightmares were becoming worse each time I had them.

“We both know Mister Maksen wouldn’t look at someone like Katya. He only had eyes for you since you were children.”

And that was the moment I felt more confused than ever. I looked at her and I furrowed, trying to understand what she was trying to say.

“What do you mean?”

Her facial expression changed to a more concerned one. “Weren’t you upset that Mister Maksen and Miss Katya will be leaving together on a vacation?”

They were what now?

For what?

The heat was flushing through my body and my muscles tensed at the thought of them spending their time together. She had him all for herself, while I couldn’t even hug him and not be punished for it.

“Miss...”

But Olivia didn’t get to finish her sentence, because I was already out of the house.

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MAKSEN

Lukyan left with the technicians, and as soon as I saw myself alone in the living room, I moved my feet to the kitchen where I knew I’d found Annalise. When I arrived, I only met Olivia’s eyes, full of worry and disappointment.

“Where is she?” I asked briefly and she sighed deeply.

“She left. I think you might find her in the forest. You know she likes to hide in there whenever something bothers her,” she explained and I saw how worried she was for Annalise.

“She found out, hasn’t she?”

Olivia gazed at me and by the flinch that sparkled in her irises, I knew the answer was yes.

Fuck me.

Without saying anything, I fixed my shirt and ran to the back door to find my sad little girl. I wasn’t sure why she was upset, because I refused to think that she was jealous of Katya. She better not be sad because she thinks that I like Katya, because that would make me angry.

The other reason would be that she felt left out because she found out last, which I could understand. And I was going to tell her how sorry I was that I didn’t tell her first.

I knew that this moment would come, but I wasn’t prepared for it to happen so soon. Yet, Lukyan had another plan in his devilish mind and planned a vacation for me and Katya to get to know each other before telling everyone that we were getting married in six damn months.

The blood in my veins was already boiling hot enough for me to turn into a real open flame that could burn the whole island down.

I wandered the woods until I reached the lake, but she was nowhere to be found. I scratched my neck as I checked the surroundings and the moment I came closer to the biggest tree in the forest, I saw the strands of her blonde hair flying in the wind’s breeze.

A light smile crept onto my face as I made my way towards her. When I got closer, she stood up from the ground and faced me with an angry expression.

“You shouldn’t have come here,” she blubbered and my stomach curled at the sight of her face drowning in salty tears. “You really shouldn’t have!” she insisted and a sob escaped her mouth.

“Yet here I am,” I replied, stepping closer to her.

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