A Bitter Toast

Vivienne’s POV

Ruslan’s arrival to dinner was the much needed distraction I needed after the back and forth with my father. Hopefully, now that he was here, everyone would be too focused on asking Ruslan celebrity coded questions and before I knew it, dinner would be over and we’d leave.

“Hey, you.”

He dropped into the empty seat across from me, placed a hand dramatically over his heart. “I apolog