Chapter Eighteen

AURORA

I don't know if it's what I said or what I did but it surely got me into trouble. Instead of going to their club like he had informed me earlier tonight, we were driven back to that apartment he had kept me in the night he had kidnapped me.

Maybe it was the name calling? Well, I didn't mean to call him a pervert, he could be one but he wasn't back then, if anything I was the perverted one back then and it's most likely what got me here.

Cassian left ten minutes ago, leaving me in the lions den, where I now stand in nothing but my underwear with the lion that intends to consume every last bit of hope I have left staring at me from across the room. I'm nervous, he's quiet, too quiet for my taste. What is he thinking? Is he comparing me to Brielle, his other toys or something much more inappropriate, his wife?

Caelum sits on the couch he sat on that night, still in his suit, with the tie now loosened.

“Get on the bed.” Caelum orders a second time, and again, I hesitate to re