“If you’re not careful, Ivan, you’ll surely burst with all the confidence you have in me.” That was only true because I wasn’t allowed more than an inch of freedom, but I kept the retort inside. My fingers tightened around the jewelry box. “You do not know how things work over there.” His eyes came back to mine, seemingly oblivious to the incoming tide that soaked his Italian loafers. It held a tense note, as if the idea of me going to the Russian police had equally amused and disturbed him. Actually, after a few seconds of staring at me, he cast a disinterested look out at the bay and released a breath. “And once you are over there, what will you be able to do if he is?” “What if he’s in some kind of trouble?” I’d met a number of papa’s business partners, and there wasn’t a single one I would be comfortable being alone with. The knowledge released a small weight from my shoulders, but it also added another. What if he’s sick and doesn’t want me to know?”Īt the sincerity in his eyes, I believed him. You know he’s not watching his cholesterol. “Papa practically lives there these days. “The capital of Russia? The place I was born? The-” “Moscow,” he repeated slowly, like he’d heard me wrong. Had cool and collected Ivan Volkov actually paled at that single word, or was it my overactive imagination? He released my arm, his quiet intensity freezing me to the wet stone. “Home” was on my lips, but something entirely different, something that shocked even me, came out. Unfortunately, a Russian winter is the coldest of them all, and Mila soon learns the only way to escape intact is to do the impossible and thaw her captor's heart.Important Reasons for Having Mirrors in Elevators But it doesn't take long for his caress to become a rough grasp muffling her screams. One with unexplained wealth, tattoos on his hands, and secrets in his eyes. She never expected to fall for a man on the way. Suffocated by the rules and unanswered questions, Mila does what she's always wanted to. Not about her papa's absences or his refusal to let her set foot in her birthplace-Russia. Having always done what is expected of her, Mila dresses the part, only dates college boys with exemplary backgrounds, and doesn't ask questions. She refrained from telling her it would be literally while Mila ran for her life. A fortune teller once told Mila she'd find a man who would take her breath away. The content is the same as the original work.

The darkest temptation by danielle lori