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I Sold Myself to My Ex’s Father 043
Aurora’s POVThe house settled into a deeper quiet after he left.I remained in the study for a while, then returned to the east wing as instructed. The man at the stairwell had been joined by a second. Both nodded. Neither spoke. I entered the suite, left the lamp on, and sat on the edge of the bed with my phone face down on the table.Sleep did not come.Every sound in the building registered. A door on a lower floor. Footsteps that did not approach. The distant shift of a car on the main drive that proved to be nothing. I checked the time too often. Midnight. One-thirty. Past two. The order to stay inside the east wing held. The three-sided pressure—Callum’s documents, the watching collector, Gideon’s unexplained departure—held with it.I lay down fully dressed on top of the covers and stared at the ceiling. The locked office, the Red Room, the restricted movement, the park bench, all of it circled without settling. Underneath ran the simpler fact that he had left without explanati
I Sold Myself to My Ex’s Father 042
Aurora’s POVI returned through the service gate the same way I had left.The guard had changed again. He recorded the time without comment. I walked the garden path to the east entrance and entered the house with my expression controlled and my hands steady. The shaken part sat deeper, where it would not show until I was alone with the information.Gideon was still in the study. He looked up when I appeared in the doorway. The twenty minutes I had requested had become nearly two hours. He noted it without raising his voice.“You left the grounds.”“Yes.”“Explain.”I closed the door behind me and stood in front of the desk. The truth had weight. Withholding it had more.“Callum sent a message this morning. He told me to meet him alone or he would release the original debt documents—the structure of how it was paid and what I agreed to. I met him in the east park. He showed me copies. He offered to keep them quiet if I cooperated in exposing the contract. I refused.”Gideon’s expressi
I Sold Myself to My Ex’s Father 041
Aurora’s POVI stared at the message until the screen dimmed.*Meet me. Alone. Or I’ll make sure everyone knows exactly how your debt was paid.*The smart choice was to take the phone downstairs and place it on Gideon’s desk. The restricted movement order was still in place. Security was still on the floor. The collectors had already returned once. Meeting Callum alone sat outside every rule I had been given.I typed the reply anyway.*Where.*The answer came within a minute. A public park on the east side of the city. Eleven o’clock. The bench near the north fountain. Alone.I deleted the thread, dressed in the clothes required for the day, and went downstairs with the same controlled expression I used for ordinary mornings. Gideon was already in the study. He glanced up once.“You’re on time.”“Yes.”I worked through the first set of files without giving him a reason to look longer. At ten-thirty I stood.“I need air. Twenty minutes in the gardens.”He studied me for a moment. The g
I Sold Myself to My Ex’s Father 040
Aurora’s POVI did not wait until morning.I left the suite and walked back down the east hallway. The man at the stairwell watched me pass but did not stop me. The study door was half open. Gideon sat at the desk with the phone still in his hand, the call finished. He looked up when I entered.“You should be resting.”“I heard the end of your call.”He set the phone down. His expression did not change, but the air in the room tightened.“Which part?”“Callum’s access remains frozen. The collectors are a separate problem. You said you did not want the two threads touching again.” I stopped a few feet from the desk. “You placed them in the same conversation. Why?”He regarded me for a long moment. The lamp on the desk threw a low circle of light across the surface between us. Outside the windows the grounds were dark.“Sit down.”“I prefer to stand.”“Sit down, Aurora.”I sat. My hands rested on the arms of the chair so they would remain still.He leaned back slightly. The same control
I Sold Myself to My Ex’s Father 039
Aurora’s POVMorning arrived with the same soft light through the guest suite curtains.I had slept in fragments. Every sound in the house registered—the distant close of a door, footsteps on the floor below, the low murmur of voices that never came close enough to understand. The suite itself was unchanged. Neutral walls. Wide bed. No lock on my side of the door. A man remained posted near the stairwell when I finally opened it and stepped into the hallway.He nodded once. He did not speak.I went downstairs at six fifty-five. Gideon was already in the study. A tray waited on the side table. He looked up when I entered.“Eat. Then we work from here today. You will not leave the property.”“For how long?”“Until the new threat is handled. The same answer as last night.”I sat and finished the meal because the rule still required it. The food had little taste. When I was done he gestured to the chair opposite his desk. A stack of files waited.“The Eastbridge revisions. Cross-check th
I Sold Myself to My Ex’s Father 038
Aurora’s POVThe driver made the call while the car was still moving.I sat in the back seat with my hands in my lap and the message repeating itself in my head. Interest. Related obligations. Someone higher up is unhappy. The two faces from the night the door was smashed had stood in front of me again and spoken as if the debt had never fully ended.The car turned toward the mansion instead of my apartment. I did not argue. The driver had already received instructions.We arrived close to midnight. The front entrance was lit. A security man opened the door before I reached it. Gideon stood in the main hallway, still in the dark shirt he had worn in the office, sleeves rolled. His expression was controlled, but the set of his shoulders was not the same as it had been when he dismissed me hours earlier.“In the study,” he said.I followed him. He closed the door behind us. The room was quiet. A single lamp burned on the desk. He did not sit.“Tell me everything. From the moment you lef
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