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cock taking me over the edge of the cliff yet again.
He chuckled and, after a bit of fumbling, moved again to sit with his back against the headboard, me straddling his lap, to present me, not with a foil package but with a small box.
“What’s this?” I asked.
“Open it and see.”
I lifted the top off the box, moved the layer of tissue paper aside, and felt my heart constrict and tears well. “Oh, Alek,” I managed.
He reached to pick up the gift. It wasn’t a diamond ring or a pearl necklace. It wasn’t the key to some luxury apartment or fancy sports car. Yet it was the most priceless gift I’d ever received.
“Just as you belong here with me, this little girl belongs safe in the arms of her family,” he said as I looked down at the beautifully painted little wooden doll, an exact replica of the one I’d lost all those years ago.
I let the tears fall as I bent forward to cup his face in my hands before pressing my lips to his, knowing he was right. This was exactly where I belonged.
Where Nikolai was the dark of my past, Alek was the light of my future… a light I knew would never dim.
Epilogue
Alek
Three months later – New York
I smiled, watching as Olga rose to her feet without assistance, the medical trial she’d been accepted into allowing her hands, far less twisted, to clap as enthusiastically as the ones of those around her. Tears slid down a face wearing a smile as bright as the spotlight that bathed her beloved granddaughter in a circle of light.
Everyone in the theater was on their feet, the applause, loud as thunder, rolling in wave after wave toward the stage where Clara was bent toward the floor, one arm extended over her head, her wrist flexed, the other curled beneath her, her head practically brushing the stage. Not a single muscle so much as quivered She was perfection personified, frozen in place as the applause caused the entire theater to vibrate.
She’d done it.
She’d returned to where she belonged… no longer a principal dancer.
Clara had earned the honor very few had been given before her. She wasn’t just a prima ballerina… she was prima ballerina assoluta.
But as she lifted her head and found me in the wings, her smile told me all I needed to know…
She was my prima.
The End
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I was going to ruin her.
I knew it the moment I laid eyes on her. She was too naive, too innocent.
I would wrap her in the darkness of my world till she no longer craved the light... only me.
I should walk away, leave her clean and untouched... but I won't.
I hold her delicate heart in my scarred fist and I have no intention of letting go.
It all started with a book... doesn't that sound crazy?
For your entire world to come crashing down around you over research for a book?
But that is what it felt like the moment I met him.
My world tilted. Nothing made sense any more.
I only know he became like a drug to me... and I shook with need till my next fix.
About Maggie Ryan
MAGGIE RYAN is a USA TODAY multi-published and Amazon Top 100 bestselling author. She loves flirting with the forbidden to bring you stories about strong, stern alpha males and sassy, capable women who discover that life without a bit of fire and a dash of spice isn’t worth living. Maggie hopes you will curl up in your favorite chair and take the journey with her. Happy Reading!
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