Chapter 14

“You realise you aren’t supposed to be here, right?” Aria heard him and snapped out of her stare. She blinked and tried to look anywhere but at him.

“I knocked and…” She trailed, her eyes dragging down his line again but she caught herself and looked at the tall ceiling. “I thought I heard you ask me to come in.” She completed.

“Well, I thought you were the servant.” He turned back and picked up the robe slowly, wrapping it around him freely without breaking eye contact.

Her cheeks burned. “You let the servants see you without clothes?” She asked and made him blink.

“No? No, I mean…I don’t…you don’t think I’d…no. No…” She heard him stutter and muffled a sinister chuckle.

“I’m messing with you,” she said and heard him sigh almost inaudibly. “But why do I get to see you naked? Have we had sex before now?” She asked, biting her lower lip without realising it.

“Don’t push it, Aria,” Maya warned but whined to herself when it occurred to her that Aria s