Pavel shook his head. “It does not matter. It does not change what I did.” The end of the year couldn’t come soon enough. He just wanted to leave, go away, put distance between everyone he’d hurt and all the lives he’d fucked up. “I was impatient and did not listen.” And Liam had full right to kick his ass. “And none of this would have happened if I had not been idiot in first place. I am only one to blame. I should have just...” his voice trailed off. He honestly had been wondering if everyone would have been better off without him. Valentin wouldn’t have been ‘played’ as he seemed to think, Kat would never have been poisoned and Adri would never have been... taken advantage of.