Chapter 39

  I promised Scarlett I would be home tonight, and I am. But at what cost?

 Leaving Aurora passed out in my bed is haunting me, but I know she's safe there, my security team is discreet but efficient, they won't let her notice their presence but they'll not let anything harm her, even when a mosquito aims to bite on her, I'll be essentially notified.

My phone lies on the side of the bed where I always keep it, but this time I'm more alert to any vibrations. Scarlett is asleep now, but I reckon when I walked in, she wasn't asleep but pretending to sleep. I could see her eyes fluttering, contemplating peeking at me and not.

I'm glad she didn't, I'm wasted, intoxicated in the scent of Aurora's body perfume.

Goddammit, Aurora.

There's something about this woman, not only something alluring and captivating, but also something dark, and it calls to me, calls to the darkness inside me.

I want to brighten it, it's clearly haunting her. Her