Areston thinks he can shield me from his past, but what he doesn't realize is I'm already part of it.
The darkness that haunts him? It's the same one that's been chasing me for years.
I've given him everything-my body, my heart, my soul-and still...
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If I gave you the option to choose a trope for Kaden and Claire, what would it be? Give many answers as you want. I'm in the mood of picking it and slapping it with mine. Be wild be! I am on plotting stage so it'll help a great deal.
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Also - keep telling me what you think about the chapters.I only have a few people as critics so far and I love the feedbacks that they give. It helps me evaluate a different perception. Although I am super far in terms of chapters, it'll help me to note down points for final editing phase. I want to thank all those and would strongly encourage rest of you silent readers.
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"I think I should have an affair with him."
"Huh?" I look up from my book.
Claire, Selene, and I are soaking on the sundeck on my yacht somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic sea. August, his friend–an Indian origin billionaire Viaan Patel who has hopped in for a quick hi while our yachts crossed the paths, my husband, Arion, Kaden, and the twins Elias and Orson are on the main deck barbecuing or doing whatever boring thing that men do when they get together.
It has been two weeks since I enraged my husband with my overactive mind about the whole socializing issue. While we ended up sorting the whole issue by the same night, Areston thinks that I am a butterfly who loves hanging out with her friends and what he doesn't want to do is steal that away from me by making me stay home with him in our 'isolated bubble'.
Yeah, it'll be another lifetime before he lets that sarcasm slide. There's no way I want to spend my time away from him and Selene feels the same about her husband, we end up meeting in places where our husbands too can unwind with their friends.
"Viaan?" Selene, always ready for gossip, turns and rests her head on her elbow. She shoves a large portion of cotton candy in her mouth. "You just met him."
"What she said," I nod in agreement.
"You two are pathetic. Shall I flirt with him and check if he's available?" She gives us her iconic Cheshire grin that appears whenever she's up to no good and it happens a lot.
I roll my eyes. "You want to make Kaden jealous. What kind of sick foreplay do you two have going on between the two of you anyway?"
Claire doesn't tell us, but we can see it. There's something going on between them that she's not ready to talk about. He regards her with such indifference as if she's a stone in her shoe. She hates him. We have no clue why. I would have pestered her and asked, and so would have Selene, but we respect boundaries. She'll tell us when she's ready. I told them about mine when I was ready and Selene did the same. Claire was always understanding of our reasons and we have to respect the same.
