Aurora Sterling's face was as red as a boiled crab. "I... I don't remember any of that..."
"You think you can cast me aside with a simple 'I don't remember'?" Damien Valerius said unhurriedly. "Repaying a debt of gratitude is a traditional virtue. It seems you're planning to emulate the ancients."
'Emulate the ancients?'
"What do you mean?" Aurora Sterling asked uneasily.
Damien Valerius's low chuckle drifted through the air. "By offering yourself to me."
Aurora Sterling's breath hitched, and her heart began to race.
On this dark and windy night, in the Sterling Family's courtyard, Aurora Sterling was held fast in Damien Valerius's arms. To any onlookers, they would have looked like a couple locked in an intimate embrace.
But only Aurora Sterling knew how uncomfortable she was, and how desperately she wanted to break free from this man.
"Just let me go, can't we talk this over properly?" Aurora Sterling finally relented...
