Chapter 55

Ciara's POV 

I ran my hands over my tight fitting dress and smoothened the creases as I walked to Orion's office. 

Our relationship as husband and wife has been nonexistent since we got back from that stupid conference and I don't know what to think anymore. 

Last night I had been in the shower taking a shower before bed when he suddenly walked in, scaring me. 

I relaxed and invited him to join me. I didn't actually expect he would but he did and I was relieved thinking that maybe, finally we were about to put an end to the strike we had been on.

Everything had been going so perfectly and I had felt myself getting lost in the moment when he suddenly pulled away and apologized. 

It had all been a blur. One moment I had been on cloud 9 and the next minute I was suddenly grasping at straws.

I stood there, unsatisfied and completely confused. It took me a few minutes to drag myself out of there. I didn't