Chapter 56 Change Overnight

• Nikolai's eyes shot open at the feeling of a finger tracing the scars on his chest.
• “Nadia?” he said when he opened his eyes and was met with Nadia's piercing ones looking down at him.
• “Did you have a bad dream, my love?” Nadia asked, her brow furrowed with concern as she observed her husband’s tense posture. The look in his eyes suggested a turmoil that left her heart heavy; it was as if he hadn’t expected to find her there beside him. A surge of emotions—pain, anger, and jealousy—flooded her mind at the unsettling thought that he might have been anticipating someone else’s presence, perhaps that of his lover?