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Aurora is never going to be okay with me selling Sunset Cove.
My heart was so fixed on getting the empire that this was never something I thought I had to worry about.
The door at the end of the balcony opens, and Jericho steps out.
He walks up to me, resting his hands on the balcony next to me. I can see he’s the same as he was when we last saw each other.
“Just saw Vladimir leaving,” he says. "He looked happy."
“He should be. He knows he’s going to make a fortune from Sunset Cove.”
“I take it you haven’t spoken to Aurora yet.”
My chest caves. “I can’t. I keep thinking that maybe I can sort this out, so I get the girl and the empire."
"Unless Grandfather finds something else for you to do, or Aurora decides she wants to sell, I can’t see that happening.” He turns to lean against the rail.
“That’s what worries me.”
“I worry for you too.” He releases a slow sigh. “Did you hear Bastian secured Japan?”
“I heard, and Grandfather is impressed.”
“It is impressive. I know that Grandfather has tried to make sure we get a piece of the pie, but if you don’t follow through with Sunset Cove, hewillpick Bastian. No question about it.”
As if the universe can hear us, Bastian and Father emerge from the coffee shop below.
We’re too high and far away from them to see us, but if they looked up, they would.
The two are laughing the way father and son would.
The sight doesn’t get to me like it used to, but today, it hits me in other ways, screaming at me that I mustn’t lose the empire.
Jericho is right. Unless something changes with Grandfather—which is unlikely—or Aurora agrees to the sale—which is even more unlikely—I can’t have the girl and the empire.
But that doesn't stop me from trying to find a way.
There has to be something I can do.
As unlikely as Aurora is to agree, she’s my easiest option. Perhaps I can find a way to break the news of the sale to her gently, then take it from there.
If I do that, I have to pray it doesn’t instigate another war between us where I still lose her. Especially if she finds out about everything else.
Regardless, I have to try.
I’m Knight Grayson, and that’s what I do.
If a way exists, I’ll find it because, my God, do I want both.
The girl and the empire.
Chapter37
Aurora
The next few months roll by seeing Knight and me in a blissful state of happiness.
I can hardly believe it's us. We've gone from being what we were to who we are now, the married couple who’ve spent the last three and a half months in a perpetual honeymoon state.
