In the end, her heart won out over her head.
After all the years she'd lived, after all the endurance training she'd gone through in the organization, her reason still crumbled so easily before this man.
Silence…
For a moment, the only sounds in the glass room were their heartbeats and their breathing.
Aurora Sterling kept her eyes closed. Now, she couldn't hear anything but the sound of their breathing.
Damien Valerius didn't speak either. With her eyes shut, she couldn't see what he looked like or what expression he was wearing.
All she could feel was her face burning and her heart pounding. 'What am I supposed to do now?'
'So, what's supposed to happen now? Shouldn't Damien Valerius say something?'
'If he doesn't say anything, what am I supposed to do?'
Aurora Sterling suddenly felt a wave of awkwardness. This was the first time in her twenty years of life she had ever confessed her feelings to a man.
'So, what in the world was she supposed to do now?'
