Chapter 9

Rose sighed, looking up at the starry night sky, her heart fluttering. Her eyelids drooped heavily, head lulling down but she refused to go into the arms of dreamless sleep.

The room, although extremely lavish and equipped with every single necessity and want, was too big for her liking, she had tried sleeping only to be woken up after a terrible nightmare so here she was with all her lights turned on trying to stop the monster under her bed from haunting her.

A headache made her rub her head with a soft palm as she tried to think of something else than the nightmares.

She was exhausted and only wanted to sleep now, the girl hardened her cottony soft heart and got hold of her blanket dragging her body and soft fur blanket all the way to Ares’s room.

She entered without knocking after contemplating for five minutes whether it was worth it to wake him up at 2 a.m. in the night.

She was standing beside the bed watching the mafia prince sleep shirtless, wit