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My plans seem like they are backfiring at me. Aurora is tugging something deep within me that I can’t explain.
I wish everything she has shown me was the truth, but I know it isn’t.
I have to keep sight of the plan.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Aurora
I sigh when I step into the cool sanctuary of our bedroom.
Lev and I have just returned from a sightseeing trip. I still can’t get over everything he did for me these last few days. I’ve been enchanted at each experience like a giddy kid. The sensation is still alien to me, but I love every damn second of it. It’s the first time in my life someone has made me feel wanted, cared about.
And Lev Ivanov is the last person I expected this from.
We came back an hour early after the call he received ended our time together. I can’t complain, though. He’s not the kind of man who can just leave work behind and he probably never will be. But the lengths he’s gone to give me an amazing time still has my head spinning. As for our time in bed… I can’t even think about that without getting flushed.
I’m sure I’m seeing a version of him he doesn’t show other people.
“He needs someone like you,”Elena’s words echo in my mind. God, I need him! At least as much, if not more than he needs me.
I don’t think I can imagine my world without him anymore. He fills my every thought. And seeing him light up when I’m with him, makes me warm inside.
I feel my breath quicken as realization begins to sink in.
Holy shit.
I’m in love.
I place a hand to my chest, where my heart is fluttering like a caged bird. I don’t know if it’s fear or excitement.
It’s both.
I told him… and he never said it back.
But it’s out there, and there’s no going back. No matter how much I tried to deny it, I felt it from the beginning that everything that’s been happening between Lev and me is deep. And I’m not even trying to deny it anymore.
Yet still, I’m afraid. It doesn’t matter how amazing these past few days have been. It feels impossible to believe he could ever reciprocate my feelings. Men like Lev just aren’t built that way. I’ve seen how he withdraws every time things seem to get intense.
Play it cool, Aurora.
Just calm down.
But how? How the hell do I steady this mad pounding of my heart?
How do I play it cool when simply thinking about him makes every inch of my body crave his touch like a drug?
Touch?
My chuckle is oddly loud in the silence of the room.
Lev doesn’t touch. He consumes. Devours.
I’m so absorbed by these thoughts that I almost jump when I hear the familiar ringtone of my phone. I’d left it on the bedside table before we went out.
“Mother?”
“Hello, dear,” Leila says as I hold the phone to my ear.
