SEBASTIAN
The knock came a few minutes before dinner. It was a hesitant knock, like whoever was knocking wasn't sure about it, Mrs. Aldaine didn't knock like that.
I looked up from the file in front of me, already irritated before I even reached the door. Elara stood in front of the door, she looked like she had fought with the devil and lost.
She held out a photograph without a word and I slowly took it. My eyes moved across the image, her and Maya at the balcony this morning. The picture was taken by a professional and the angles were sharp. I turned it over and that was when I saw it, four carefully written words that riled me up.
He can't protect you.
My expression darkened immediately, someone had the audacity to invade my privacy, threaten my fake girlfriend and thought he'
