Chapter Twenty Four

Ava

I hear a knocking, my eyes are still closed. At first I feel disorientated then recall I was on the call with Zoe until nearly midnight. My head feels fuzzy from the champagne and then I remember. I groan, how could I have done that? Bringing myself to climax at a dinner table, I feel mortified and so embarrassed. I never want to see that man again, I simply can't. There is another knocking sound. I have to open my eyes but they feel like lead weights. All I want to do is roll back over and go to sleep and forget last night ever happened. I daresay Zoe is right and that Sebastian loved every minute of me losing control under his spell. The fucker, I'm so off men right now. Every single last one of them. Don't even get me started on my ex, Mark.

There it is again the knock. I realise it is somebody at the room door. "Hold on." I shout out wondering who on earth can be knocking on my hotel room at this unholy hour of the morning. I reach for my mobile from the bedside table and chec