The Billionaire's Temporary Mistress
His eyes, usually so warm when they landed on Lila or me, were distant, focused on a bleak horizon only he could see, a horizon dominated by the phantom conjured by Lila’s nightmares: the owner of those boots.
The drawings. They were imprinted on my soul, a constant, horrifying slideshow behind my eyelids. Locked in Damien’s biometric safe now, they still screamed from the darkness. The monstrous scribble with empty eyes that radiated pure malice. The small, stick-figure child curled impossibly tight. The boots, always the boots, standing sentinel over fear. Damien… Oh God, Damien. The moment his eyes had locked onto that drawing of the child hiding under the table, the boots beside it… I’d
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