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Jean wrapped his hands around me tightly the moment he came to, pulling me in and shutting the door behind us immediately. He led me to the sitting room without any questions, and when we stopped, he eyed the couch, then eyed me again before letting out a sigh. “Yeah… this is beyond couch material, so let’s go to my room,” he breathed, already pulling me upstairs. I just let myself be dragged along because right now, I felt nothing but numbness as I relived everything that had happened over and over again. Knight… just the feel of his name was bitter on my tongue. But even with all the bitterness, I couldn’t, for one second, push him out of my head—and nothing, nothing irked me more than that. We finally made it to Jean’s room and slipped inside silently. Jean let go of me and headed to his closet, pulling out a few clothes. I watched as he brought them back to me. “Take a shower first, before anything else,” he muttered, placing the clothes gently in my hands. “I’m not going to

Knight’s POV My eyes still remained fixated on the spot even after Aria drove off. I didn’t care about what I was feeling or what she saw me do—currently, all I cared about was making sure she was fine and finding out who had the guts to even think of harming her, and so close to me. I had promised myself to never let her get hurt, and it seemed I just failed at that. So now it was about time I tossed the good-boy act out the window. “Take care of the bodies and track the car Aria took,” I breathed as I walked forward, my jaws clenching with each word. “I need to know exactly where she’s going so I can bring her back, so hurry up with it,” I finished, and Rowan nodded sharply, phone already out. “Have them search those men and their car too. I need anything that can lead us to whoever sent them here.” I guess having me kill Angelo wasn’t enough. Now they wanted to take Aria from me. Like hell I would let that happen. I slipped into the other car, and it sped off immediately, the

My relief grew as I spoke with Angelo, but in that same instant, another kind of panic set in as his words settled in my head. I was still being chased. I wasn’t safe yet. And most importantly… Knight did all this to try to protect me. The realization that I was unaware of all of this and called him so many harsh names pulled at my heart, but still, I waited for Angelo to finish. “So just like that person planned, they got Knight to suspect me and bring me in for questioning. That was probably when Knight came up with this plan,” he finished with a tight smile. “To fake your death?” I asked, and he nodded. “If I’m out of the picture like they wanted, the traitor thinks they’ve won, then it wouldn’t take long before they approach him again,” Angelo added. “ I’ll admit It, I was taken aback when Knight shot me too,” he said, his eyes on the cast. “I fell to the floor screaming, and Rowan went pale too,” he continued. “But Knight… he walked over to me and wrapped a towel around my

I know I must have shocked Knight when I refused his proposal, One minute I was throwing myself at him, losing myself in a kiss that felt like it could bridge the gap between our two worlds, and the next, I was stepping back. But in the moment he asked me out, I just couldn’t bring myself to say yes. We had too many things left unsettled for me to just push aside. I could say we were back to square one—getting to know each other again because of all these new discoveries. So, not yet. No matter how much I wanted to say yes, reason won over that desire. I was glad he understood, too, and that he was willing to give me the time I needed to adjust to all this. But one thing he said stuck with me. Even as we walked out of the safe house, waving to Angelo, I couldn’t get it off my mind. What if I see everything he is and realize it’s too much for me to handle? He said he was going to wait, and I accepted that. But I barely even knew what tomorrow would bring, so how could I guaran

Knight’s POV I was on my way to Aria’s place minutes after I dropped the call with her. Frankly, having to do things like this was foreign to me, or should I say I had just never cared enough to do it for anyone else before. But now… especially with how much being in my world had messed things up for her, the least I could do was assure her sister that I would give anything to protect her. I wasn’t certain how I would do that yet, but I knew this one thing. If her sister cared about her as much as I did, then we shouldn’t have an issue talking or finding common ground. I pulled up in front of their house after a while and killed the engine. I drove myself today because Rowan had a much more important job to do. That job being Conan. By the time I left here, Conan should be in that room, and Rowan better have gotten something from his loose lips. I would oh so hate to do it myself. I had little time to waste on someone so pathetic anyways. I strolled to the door, trying my bes