Chapter 26 Katerina

• "Her name was Kristina," he whispers before finally gazing at me again. "We were going to build a family. We'd been planning every detail down to the littlest thing. I'd never imagined myself as a father, but with her, it was hard not to imagine myself as one." He crushes the rose, causing petals to shiver free, drifting to the counter in broken fragments. "Yevgeniy robbed me of that future when he killed her."
• "Oh my God, no," I groan. Staggering backward, I shake my head in horror. They were going to start a family someday. That's why they were preparing a nursery! "How could he do something so awful?"
• "Because monsters like him don't care what tragedies they create." His pupils flick to the floor, looking at everything but seeing nothing. "That's why I don't let anyone go up to that room. I don't have the strength to throw those things in the trash, but neither do I want to see it. No one should look on my dead dreams."