Irina's POV 

I had made up my mind.

If Alexei would not let me go, then I would make him wish he had never taken me in the first place.

I would drive him insane. I would be so difficult, so annoying, and so impossible to deal with that he would have no choice but to send me back to Dimitri.

It was a dangerous plan. But it was all I had.

That morning, I heard voices downstairs. I crept to my door and listened. Men were having a heated conversation. 

It seems Alexei was having a meeting. An important one from the sound of it. 

"Perfect timing." I chuckled....