A Calculated Union

Valentin’s POV

I didn’t flinch, but I almost did. It took every ounce of restraint not to correct my father, like the control freak I absolutely was. To tell him that my troublesome wife’s name was Vivianna, not Oksana. He’d been calling her that since she was a kid, and to this day I couldn’t tell whether it was sheer laziness or some warped version of endearment. Either way, the name had clung t