Chapter 55

She hadn’t been able to feel calm around him for a while now. He was unsettled, and while his face wasn’t saying it, she could feel it radiating off him in waves. Something was going on, and she desperately wanted to know what it was about.

“Not in the slightest.” Eros smiled at her. “You have nothing to worry about.”

“You need to tell me what’s going on.” Aria began. She still sounded pensive, and she wasn’t going to buy his tale of everything being okay.

If he were to be in her shoes, he would hound her until she spilled out whatever had her troubled, and she was going to do the same thing to him now.

“I’ve been thinking long and hard about it, and maybe I’ve decided that I don’t want to leave New York at the end of the month.”

Aria stared at him, her eyes unblinking with her mouth hung open.

“I—“

“What if I give you a reason never to chase me away?” Eros cut in.

“I was never going to, even if I don’t end up falling in love with Ashe