Aurora's POV
I glared at him, my eyes burning with a heat that had nothing to do with the desire he had just ignited in my body. The pain in my heart was growing, swallowing up every bit of that ridiculous attraction I thought I had for him.
I remembered why I was here. I remembered the blood on the floor and the silence in my childhood home. I didn't get close to him to fall in love or to crave his touch; I got close to him to kill him. To make him pay. Hearing him talk so coldly about taking fathers away from their daughters—about how my parents' lives were just a "paycheck"—snapped me back to reality.
Fuck whatever feelings I thought I was developing, I screamed internally. The plan is back in motion. Raymond, I will kill you. I will be the last thing you see before you leave this world.
I didn't say a word. I reached for my shoes, my fingers trembling with a mix of leftover adrenaline and a new, cold fury.
