Paved in Fire by Sonja Grey

It’s time to bring Alina home.

Alina:
When I was young, I fell in love with a dark-eyed boy.
I never grew out of that crush.
Not even when the teenaged boy grew up to be a very dangerous man.
Every year it just grew stronger until I finally turned eighteen and forced him to see me as the woman I’d become and not just as his best friend’s little sister.
We were so happy together, but then I was taken. Ripped from him in the cruelest of ways.
But he’s looking for me.
I know he is, and I know he’ll burn the world down to get to me.
I just need to hold on a little bit longer.

Matvey:
I searched for her for two years.
Each day felt like a lifetime.
I was losing my mind, imagining all the things that were being done to her.
But I finally found her.
And now it’s time to bring her home.
They took her from me, and they’re going to pay.
I’m getting Alina back,
and then we’re going to set the world on fire and watch them burn.