10

ALEXANDER

I placed my phone down on the table before me, thinking long and hard. A voice call?

The offer was incredibly tempting, even though it wasn't part of our initial agreement. From the video chats we'd had previously, I could already tell that she had a soft voice. It wasn’t just soft, a better word would be husky. It sounded oddly familiar, but I was too caught up in her beautiful body to think too deeply about it.

I couldn't stop thinking about Aurora though, and the way she'd looked at me with so much hate and anger back at the alleyway. I always loved to push her to the limits just to see how much she could take. I needed to know that she had a backbone so badly, because it irritated me that somehow, she never got angry with me despite how I treated her.

It made me feel like a fucking loser, like she was an angel and I was some kind of demon from the deepest, hottest, pits of hell.

But today . . . I'd seen the fire in her crystal blue eyes as she'd told me off. I knew I'd p