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His work ethic and zest for success are what has made Grayson Inc. so successful.
It’s only in recent years, as he got older, that he stopped working so hard, but he still does what he can.
I know I shocked Aurora the other day when she saw me working with the contractors, but that’s what I do, and the reasons I’m so successful.
When I get down to the bottom of the garden, I stop at the sight of the woman I rejected almost twenty-four hours ago. She’s sitting under the willow tree writing in a little notebook.
The moon shines down on her, turning her hair silver and reminding me of one of those lustrous foil paintings.
She’s so engrossed in what she’s doing, she doesn’t see me. I’m not that far away, but as it’s dark and I’m wearing black, it would be difficult to spot me.
I doubt she’d want to see me anyway. Even if I don’t believe she would have heeded my warning to drop her request for Sunset Cove. I don’t expect her to forget something so important. I understand more than most that feeling of doing something because you want to honor a person. But for her, it’s her mother.
As I would do anything in the universe for mine, I expect Aurora to regroup, but it will just be another fight between us.
A fight that will end up where?
Lust is the driver of those fights of ours. Raw, primal, carnal lust.
It’s stirring in my soul again, willing me to go to her. Get a closer look.
Get another taste.
But I do the thing I should have always done and push temptation away.
Business has to be business when it comes to us, so I need to leave her alone.
She’ll only be my wife on paper until she’s not, then it won’t matter how either of us feels.
At that point, when we say goodbye, it will be like none of this ever happened, and she’ll become another ghost to me.
With that reasoning, I walk away.
Chapter21
Aurora
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I look over the message that’s just come through in my inbox.
As I scan the words, I feel excited for the first time in forever. Madison is
