For Alina

Your relationship with Erick didn’t start out so well. Is it hard to fall in love with a man you thought caused your miseries?

Alina: Falling in love with Erick had never been the hard part. The hard part had been to accept the fact that I had. We’d never been friends, never seen eye to eye, and most of it was because we were two completely different species; but even then there had been this physical attraction that we couldn’t deny. And after that… (Clears throat)… I despised him. But the moment Erick came back after four years, I noticed minor changes in him I hadn’t before...