Chapter 65. My Property

Orion’s POV

Too many times had I allowed her to get her way, I could feel it at this moment when Grace continued to press in, her warm breath flowing over my skin.

This wasn’t the first time she had employed this tactic, retreating into seduction once she felt cornered. It had always been her fallback, her most reliable weapon.

But I had not stopped her, possibly out of some petty annoyance from Layla’s name being mentioned too many times or conveniently because of how great it was to allow Grace to have her way rather than to argue with her.

Her fingers made a passive trail down my chest and hovered over my buttons. “You love a challenge, don’t you?” she dropped her voice, just before her lips.

I arched an eyebrow, but my thoughts were elsewhere.

Layla.

That name hung in my mind like a curse, and it would not even let me rest. No matter how hard I tried to suppress it, it surfaced again and again. Last night, at the auction, she did