Chapter 2
“Relax” Nathaniel said coldly. “Aurora’s wrapped around my finger. She’ll defend me to her grandfather and do exactly what she’s tolid“]
“As for Felicia, she’ll never know any of this happened. Make sure people say Aurora wa the Sinclairs will be kissing my ass with gratitude. After I’ve got all their shares, Felicia will
desperate and Innely–that the screwed up. Once I marry Aurora. ket for life.”
But what shout Miss Sinclair?” the assistant stammered nervously. “What if she breaks down? Or tries to leave you?” He nearly mentioned Nathaniel being cheated on but caught himself:[]
Nathaniel stared at the sunrise, unconsciously digging his fingers into Aurora’s arm. Irritation flashed across his face as he remembered spending the entire night listening to the sounds from the car.
car.]
“That’s not gonna happen. Damian’s dick is practically dead from all the STDs he’s collected. He can’t even get it up anymore, especially when he’s drunk. I cainalsted everything. All that noise last night? Just Damian’s pathetic attempt to get under my skin. None of it was real.”
“Aurora will never know the truth…. The drug I slipped her causes memory distortion. She won’t remember I was the one who handed her over to playboy”
that diseased
to arrange more bodyguards around
her–protection
Nathaniel never actually confirmed whether Aurora would stay or not. He simply instructed his assistant to at
hat was practically imprisonment
Yes, sir. You’ve th
thought of everything” the assistant replied with a nervous laugh]
Aurora trembled, cold sweat breaking out across her skin. This Nathaniel was a stranger–a monster she’d never truly known]
Nathaniel, last night was real,
What happened between her and Damian wasn’t fake. If you knew, would you regret orchestrating this twisted game?||
And that drug in her wine… it was just an ordinary drug.
Mistaking her trembling for chills, Nathaniel pulled her tighter against him.[]
When she awoke Ister, she quietly contacted the man who had become her unexpected ally–Nathaniel’s sworn enemy, Damian Wolfe[]
That offer you made last night about helping me escape Nathaniel is it still on the table?
Damian sounded like he’d just rolled out of bed, his voice raspy and thick with satisfaction. “Seven days from now, I’ll come get you. Don’t chicken out, princess.
r decision] Sitting alone in her roum, Aurora bit her lip hard enough to draw blood as she made her i
“I wont
Domian laughed dryly. Fucking finally just don’t come crawling back the second your precious Nathaniel snaps his fingers.“[]
His worth rat through her like shards of glass, each syllable driving deeper into her already shattered heart. In this twisted triangle, she was the only one who d lost everything..
The pain in her thest was so i
was so inferise she could barely breathe.||
“I won’t,” she whispered, trans theratening to spill. “To done being his puppet.“||
After hanging up, she dragged herself to the window on unsteady feet and threw it open, letting the brutal winter wind assault her face, the cold numbing her pain and disguising her broken sola,
When the wind had finally frozen her tears, she quietly closed the window and began gathering everything Nathaniel had given her over the years, her movements mechanical and lifeless||
There was a cheap red string bracelet he’d tossed diri way i
y on her birthday, daiming it was special [|].
For year.
me day, he di spent his first six figure bonus on a million dollar diamond necklace for Teluia as some sort of apology ||
she’d carefully preserved everything related to their reimionship in a safe, treasuring what she now realized were nothing but hes!]
A plinta album documenting their lives from age six to twenty, and a diary where she written his hune with bearts until the pages bied ink.
With dead eyes, Aurura dumped it all into a metal hin and set it ablaze, watching dispassionately as the evidence of her wasted love turned to ash
What are you burning?–|||
Nathanjel appeared in workout clothes, sweat glistening on his forehead. He reached out to touch her hair, but Aurora recoiled as if his fingers were
were poisonous||
