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iciously playing with whatever, he can find that rolls in the night. However, he was as quiet as a church mo

how she managed to get a leave of absence and have none other than Dmitri Markov personally call in and ask.

Dmitri, she also has the task of researching just who he is. Genevieve has never struck Elena has someone

He isn't someone who makes her feel unsafe, but he does overwhelm her with his presence and is obviously a power

le search of Dmitri Markov, but it gives her a bunch of random people from Russia that don't really fit

e Nikolai Markov, and a car company comes up. It seems to be more of a garage that repairs cars rather than o

, he is obviously related to Dmitri, but their company doesn't seem that big or demanding, so it still

and especially with the big figure heads of New York, she wouldn't be surprised if

should be focusing her time on figuring out what it is she wants to do for the rest of her life. She can't keep relying on her parent'

as an artist, knowing she has a better chance landing a stable job as a make-up artist than she would as a freelance artist. But aft

ons in her life, though reflecting on it, she doesn't really have any. She has worked at Genevieve's diner for so long because she knows no other place is any better th

has found that her mother doesn't seem to have the same features, and her father is supposedly Irish, so he is a ghost in comparison to Elena. Some people have wonder

ose places again. Where she works now is just busy enough, with just the right amount of

ct number up and down on her phone. She recalls their conversation in the car, wondering if he really does me

en a girl to sleep with a guy on the first date. It's hard to break off from that person

ntense interest he is showing in her with just a few minutes of conversation together. She can't deny she isn't attractive, but she h

more than a few choice words when he forced himself on her, but a part of her couldn't ignore the fact that she liked the way his kiss made

been attracted and head over heels for them but doesn't remember ever feeling such inten

cides to do a major clean of her small apartment, something she has been putting off for a while now. Getting all of her dirty clothes together, grabbi

e place is almost quite literally sparkling. She has periodically peered at her phone from time to time,

, and her head hurts from how much her apartment wreaks of cleaning supplies,

aking note to pick up some wet food for Oliver while she is out. A sudden knock

fore giving her the ti

ful bitch. I know you're in there, and you forgot t

g of her fists against the door. She was always known throughout her brief time at college as someone very aggressive and hard to

g her the second bedroom in her apartment off campus while Elena studied. She even helped her get the apartment she has now when Elena decided to leave college, a

his girl, and she forgot to attend h

o understand how hard she works me and why I missed your birth

eyes but a smile soon spread

hing me up on where you've been this past year. I almo

anyway, my apartment smells like

lia takes a whiff and reels back instantly. "What the hell were you doing in

meone better than cleaning everything in sigh

an intense distraction?

ble with after just a few words. Then again, she can't imagine what el

ver coffee, it's

*

man does that in this day and age? Did you figure out how old he was?" Natalia went off on a

car garage where they restored broken and damaged cars, I think. Something like that, but nothing to explain who he

e mention of his appearance, a dead giveaway that this helpl

nds like quite the attractive man," she says an

d him makes him seem so much more mature and overbearing, you can't help but be attracted to him the moment he walks through

han five hours to give him an

ghtly that she has less than half a day to decide,

, just go to dinner with him and see how you feel. If it really doe

it will be that easy to shake this guy. He seems really determined to claim me as his own o

alia's interest.

the other night, and the name he saved it under isn't a very common nickname that I know of

name was again? His ful

me originally sai

goes pale and

kov, and is the shop you rese

orning, she remembers seeing the name N

name is Nikolai I believe. Why, what's wrong?

find any information on Dmitri other than that is

ower to do that?" Elena asks

ssian Ma