He just shakes his head at me and it’s Alina who answers my question.
“He didn’t know. Ivan brought me home from the club, but that’s us done.” I
look to Dragna and notice he’s narrowed his eyes at her slightly as if something she’s said isn’t the truth, but it could also just be because he’s thinking about whether Alina has broke Lev’s heart. I heard the hurt in her voice though, hurt that I havenever heard over a guy before so Lev must of done something to her and if he has, I’m going to kill him.
I feel like I’m in an alternate universe right now. I was about to have sex for the first time with someone other than the only guy I’ve ever slept with and Alina is the one heartbroken over a guy.
“Do you both want some time to talk?” Dragna asks, breaking the silence.
“I can make you both tea.” He adds, suggesting he’s not leaving but he’ll give us the space to talk about Lev.
“Yeah, please.” Alina says without looking at him. Dragna walks out of the room to leave us be and as soon as the door closes she looks at me with tears in her eyes.
“I don’t want to talk about tonight, I can’t talk about tonight. I just need you to be here for me because I don’t know what the fuck to do with the pain in my body right now Wills.” She says before she lets the tears fall and for the first time in years since she was first ever hurt by someone, my best friend cries to me over a guy.
She doesn’t stop when Dragna returns with our tea, or for the rest of the night while I just hug her close to me until we both fall asleep in my bed holding each other.
Chapter Twenty Two
Dragna
I wake up with a backache from hell. As my eyes adjust to the light I realise I fell asleep at Willows apartment and not only that, but against the wall outside her bedroom door.
I could hear Alina crying into the night and it pained me to know that she couldn’t tell Willow anything. She wasn’t just crying for Lev either. I know she was crying because she’s hurt finding out about Marco too.
I scrub my hands over my face still in disbelief about Marco being her father. I quickly realised that any thoughts I had about him sending her to Lev to get to us were out of the question when I saw her genuine shock and anger at finding everything out.
I do feel for her, I’m not a complete heartless bastard who only cares about a few people. Okay I am, but Alina practically being Willows sister and Lev being in love with the girl means she’s now in my inner circle of people I care about by proxy. We have only ever had one real conversation, said conversation being last night where she sent threats my way worse than most I’ve heard come from ruthless underworld leaders mouths. But still, her pain isn’t what I wanted to hear or to cause.
I pull my phone from my pocket and see a bunch of missed calls from Lev and a string of texts. Fuck I forgot to text him to tell him Alina was home safe. I’m about to reply to him when I remember Alina arrived home after I got here. Lev said Ivan was dropping her home, so where the fuck did they go last night. She arrived home well after the amount of time it should have only taken.
Instead of texting Lev I pull up the camera footage from outside the club for the time stamp Ivan left with her and then check the time stamp of when she arrived here last night on Willow’s cameras. An hour and a half. No, there’s no way Ivan fucked with Lev’s girl, they are practically like brothers, so what the hell were they up to. I’ll have to get Alina on her own to ask her at some point today because as much as I don’t believe she was sent to us for the Italians benefit, it’s suspicious as fuck she didn’t arrive home when she should have.
Just as I’m about to reply to Lev the bedroom door opens and Willow walks out while rubbing her eyes. She walks straight into my stretched out legs and almost falls flat on the ground before I catch her in time.
“Good morningmoya dusha.” I grumble into her hair, pulling her close to me. She looks up at me completely bewildered.
“What the hell are you doing out here?” She asks as I begin to stand while cradling her. She wraps her hands around my neck and I carry her to the kitchen.
“Keeping watch.” I say nonchalantly like it’s an everyday thing for me to fall asleep outside her bedroom door.
“You got cameras installed, you don’t need to literally sleep outside my bedroom door like an unwanted dog.”
I set her down on the kitchen counter, the memory from last night coursing through my mind and all I want to do is throw her over my shoulder again and find the nearest empty bed.
“If it means knowing nobody can get to you, I’d sleep outside your room every night.” I say before kissing her. She deepens the kiss and moans softly into my mouth, the noise going straight to my cock. I really need to get some self control otherwise I’ll end up fucking her every time she kisses me, not caring where we are.
“Do you want coffee?” She asks as she breaks the kiss and I nod as she slips off the counter only to be caged in by my arms. She looks up at me and smiles and I don’t know whether I’ll regret the thought I’ve just had, but I know it will mean a lot to my mother.
“Do you want to have dinner with me tonight?” I ask her as I smooth some of her bedhead down.
“I would really love that, but I need to see how Alina is feeling after last night. I don’t want to say yes right now if she might need me here with her. I hope you understand that.” She says as she takes one my hands in hers.
“Of course, I wouldn’t ever want to take you away from her or any of your friends. You can let me know once you’ve spoken to her.” I say as I rub the back of her hand with my thumb.
“If I say yes, where were you thinking for dinner?”
“Well, it would be at my house, and my mother would also be there.” I look her in the eyes as I say the last part and her smile falters slightly.
