The morning came too soon. Aurora woke with a headache and a bruise on her neck that she would have to cover with makeup. She stood in the shower for twenty minutes, letting the hot water pound against her skin, trying to wash away the memory of his touch. It didn’t work. Nothing worked.She got out, dried off, wrapped herself in a robe that had been her father’s, and sat at her kitchen table with coffee that tasted like ash. Her phone was full of messages from her business partner, Maya, asking how the charity event had gone, if she had made any good contacts, if she had seen anyone interesting. Aurora typed back a lie: Boring. Rich people talking about money. Nothing useful.She didn’t mention the penthouse. She didn’t mention his hands. She didn’t mention that in three days she was scheduled to walk into Vale Industries headquarters for a preliminary meeting about a merger consultation, and that she had no idea how she would look him in the eye without remembering exactly how he
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