Andrei & Lilith
Andrei
I had to come up with a way to get Natalia alone, away from Damon, so I could talk to her.
A few days had passed since she had told me she had aborted my baby, and it gave me time to think. Something was off about Natalia, and I had a feeling it was because of Damon.
He was manipulating her. I was certain of it. He had likely been manipulating her before she even left me—he was probably the reason she left and faked her death to begin with. Maybe he had even manipulated her into aborting our child.
I was certain, now, that if I could just get her alone and talk to her, really talk to her, then she would snap out of it and tell me the truth. Whether Damon had some kind of spell on her—metaphorically speaking—or if he was perhaps intimidating her into obeying his
