Jaw clenched, I watched Nik gulp, his gaze firm and cold. "May be we should take the conversation upstairs, a little more private."
Timidly, I nodded and followed him upstairs while wondering what he could possibly mean by that. He had a big house, sure, and I knew he had personal security, but was really a conversation involving him not even private in his own home? I wondered what life he was living that could possibly lead to that...
Nonetheless, I let him lead us to the room I had previously 'escaped' from, shutting the door behind him. I walked ahead faster, standing at a good ten feet distance from him before sitting on the edge of the bed, while he stood leaning on the opposite long wallpaper clad walls, his arms crossed against his chest, his white shirt folded above his elbows,
