Nikolai’s POV
I have been spending as much time with Domina finding out what she knows and I have missed letting my wife see me or talk to me. Leaving before she wakes, and slipping to bed when she has slept. Just like in the beginning. Even slacking in some parts of my duties.
Not that I have gotten anything from Dominia yet but my patience was running thin. I can almost say I was getting irritated by the time she was wasting, I could see that she was worried about something the last time I saw her which was this evening, and just like every day that I had been with her. I had made sure she was on her toes, as anxious as she had first made me. She looked as if she was dying or yearning for something. . . Something dear to her heart. But still, she kept her mouth closed, not speaking, a
