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“Thank God you were there.” He rests a weary hand at his temple. “I can’t believe what almost happened to her. Where is Nathan now?”
“Behind bars.”And barely alive. While Aurora was asleep, I paid that motherfucker a visit. Let’s just say once he’s finished doing time, he won’t want to show his face in New York ever again.
“I didn’t give him the job. That’s why he did this. Even if I gave it to him, he fully believed Aurora was going to marry him once the contract with you ends.”
I stare back at him, those last words feeling foreign to me, and that brings me to the reason I wanted to speak to him.
“That’s not happening.” My voice is as firm as I am in my decision.
William watches me as I lean over my desk and pick up the envelope I prepared before he got here. I hand it to him, and he takes it with a puzzled look on his face.
“What’s this?”
“All the evidence I have on you. Everything’s there. You don’t have to worry about it anymore.”
He stares back at me with wide, surprised eyes. “What? Why are you doing this?”
“Because it’s the right thing to do if I want to move forward with your daughter.”
Awe replaces surprise as the color returns to his face. “You’re not letting her go, are you?”
I shake my head. “No.”
He smiles, but then his expression falters, and I know why.
“But Sunset Cove, Knight—”
“I know. I … know.” I sound like I have a solution for that too, but I don’t. I still don’t. At least not one that sees me getting my legacy. All these months have passed and I haven’t found a way. “I’ll figure it out. Go see her. She’s expecting you.”
He nods but reaches out and touches my shoulder the way a father would when they’re offering reassurance. My grandfather has done that many times, but it feels different coming from William.
I guess he’s so good at being a father that he can offer me some of his parental support too.
“Thank you. For this.” He holds up the envelope. “But mostly for loving my Aurora. She needed it.”
The words reach my cold heart. It’s still covered with the black fog of desolation, but at least it’s clearing, and I feel human again.
“I needed it too.”
With a final nod, he leaves, and I’m left with the thoughts that have plagued me for the last few months.The girl of my dreams and the empire.
Or rather, the girl of my dreamsorthe empire.
I’ve never been in a situation I couldn’t get out of until now.
The last few months have felt like I’ve been thrown into a pit of conflict. Like tar, it’s swallowed me whole.
I’ve either had to watch Bastian continue his pursuits to outdo me with his expansion of the company in Japan. Or, watch Aurora glow with happiness as the work on Sunset Cove has progressed.
The moment the decorators started their work using her mother’s designs, I knew I couldn’t even mention the wordsale. I saw how happy she was, and I couldn’t hurt her.
Apart from that, I’ve been selfish again when it comes to her. I’ve had several chances to talk to her about the sale, but I didn’t want to spoil a second of what we’ve shared between us.
Aurora makes me feel things I didn’t think possible for a dark soul like me. I’ve come to crave it like air to my lungs and food to my soul.
When I told her about Giselle, it was hard, but telling her released that grief that has lived in my soul for what has felt like eons.
There’s more to my story that I didn’t share. More pain, more wounds, more scars. All deep.
