Our Flame

LXIII

NADIA

"You know, this is the calmest I've been since everything happened." I look up at Ezra. "And I can thank you for that." Ezra stares at me for a moment before he kisses me.

One of his hands wrap around my neck as his tongue slips into my mouth. I smile into the kiss while his other hand moves down my body.

I move away from him when I hear a knock at the door. "Ignore it." His lips meet mine again. I laugh, softly kissing him before I go to open the door.

"Nik." I embrace my twin. "I missed you." I speak as I pull away. "You shouldn't have moved out then." Niko shrugs. "I agree." Luka hugs me.

I roll my eyes, "This is temporary." I refer to me moving in with Ezra. Moving in with Ezra wasn't something I thought through at first but, I don't regret it.

Ezra keeps me sane. He helps me search for my father and swears to me that I'll get my revenge, that my father will suffer for everything he's ever done.

And I see my family all the time, what more could I ever want?

"How's your leg?" Viktor questions. My shoulders shrug as I look down at it. "I can walk more than ten steps."

Viktor chuckles at my answer, "Good." He shortly responds. "Before we forget, here." He hands me a folder. "This is it?" I question.

I scoff, "I almost died over this shit?"

"Why is it so tiny?" I continue to speak. "Where's the rest?" I wave it around. "Nadia, that's a copy. It has everything the real one has." Vadim tells me.

"Burn it after you read it." They both say. I smile, "What else would I do with it?" Viktor and Vadim shake their heads at my response.

"Have you talked to Alek?" Niko asks, I nod. Luka groans when I don't say anything. "Nadia, give us something. He won't talk to any of us."

"And can you blame him?" I look my brothers. "You guys really fucked up." I remind them. "He's adapting but, he'll reach out when he's ready." I sigh.

Aleksi and I have talked every other day since he's been gone. He enjoys London but says he wants to explore other places.

Obviously, I wanted to tell him to come home and forgive our stupid brothers but I didn't. He sounded content on the phone, and that's all I want for my family.

I look up at Ezra who leans against a wall while I talk to my family. Whilst my brothers talk, I slip away going to Ezra. "Hi." I kiss him.

"Are you happy?" He asks. I smile, Ezra has this thing he's been doing since we moved in together. The tiniest thing could occur and Ezra will always ask if I'm happy.

My answer has yet to be no despite everything else.

"Yes." I respond. "Nadia." One of my brothers call out. I turn around, facing them. "We did come here to see you but we have things to discuss."

I raise an eyebrow, "We have a location on him." Vadim speaks. "Let's go then." I start to walk away. "But we don't know who's with him." He quickly says.

"Why does that matter? For all we know whoever's with him played a part in hurting me and killing Oscar." I remind them.

"Or have we all forgotten that I was kidnapped over a month ago?" I stare at all of them. "Nadia, we have to do this carefully, we don't know who's watching."