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I sent one of my personal shoppers to the house to make sure Aurora looked the part tonight. She also had her hair and makeup professionally done.
She doesn’t need all that, but after our showdown yesterday at Sunset Cove, I didn’t trust her not to wear a garbage bag and make me look bad.
I actually don’t know what mood or version of Aurora I’m going to get tonight.
I haven’t seen her since yesterday. I got home late last night and left before sunrise, but I’m assuming she still hates me.
“I’m so excited for you.” Grandma takes both my hands into hers. “I hear she’s beautiful.”
“She is.”
“Well done.” Another hearty laugh fills the space between us.
Two of my grandparents’ friends approach, and Grandma releases my hands.
“We’ll come find you boys in a little while,” Grandfather says to us. “Grab some drinks.”
“Sure.”
He saunters away with Grandma and their friends. The two falling into an easy conversation about their plans for the evening.
Jericho turns back to me with a hopeful expression. “Well, at least they’re as happy as they always are.”
“Yeah, fifty years of happiness. It’s a long time to be together.”
“It’s a long time for a lot of things. I feel like I’ve been waiting for fifty years for Grandfather to talk to me about the company. But I’ve decided I’m not going to think about it. It’s not like we don’t have work to do.”
I couldn’t agree more. “We have a lot on our hands.”
“Speaking of which, you’ve hardly said anything about your dearly beloved.”
He’s been trying to pump me for information since he sent the message about Aurora’s secret pen name. As we were so busy today with back-to-back meetings, he seized the chance to grill me again on the way here, but I didn’t give him anything.
“Things have only gotten worse.”
“How?” His stare is as skeptical as if I just said I was having lunch with leprechauns. “Things were already terrible, but surely, her wicked, wild fantasies must sweeten the deal. Come on, Knight, she’s a fucking hot romance author who writes dirty.”
I’m very aware of who my bride-to-be is. And today’s chapter was dirtier than the last.Fucking hell,the woman is all things sinful.
“It hasn’t escaped me, brother. But right now, she hates my guts.” And I can’t blame her. “Things went all the way south yesterday at Sunset Cove.”
“What happened?”
I quickly fill him in, and as I speak, even he frowns at the parts where I explain how Aurora found out I was renovating the place. I feel like the asshole I am.
Even I know I could have done it better. I could have found another way.
I wasn’t campaigning for the world’s biggest asshole. I just felt what I did was best. Like ripping off a Band-Aid, you just get it done and deal with the consequences after.
The reality is no matter what happened, we would have had an argument anyway, but yesterday was made so much worse when Aurora told me about her mother’s plans for Sunset Cove, and how she wanted to make them reality.
I already felt Aurora was too attached to the place but hearing that amplified my reasoning for standing my ground because there’s no point doing something that carries such a sentiment when Sunset Cove is going to be sold off.
I would break her more, and I’m not about to suddenly grow a heart and lose what I want.
I could see the loss in her eyes and the pure hatred toward me. That’s what made me confess I knew about her secret pen name. And her recent work. Up until then, I had no plans of telling her. Doing so was to show her that she can’t fight me, even when she thinks she’s buried a secret deep in the earth.
I do wonder, however, if there is more to my goddess that she’s keeping under some rock in Hell.
