Chapter Five
Aura
I could feel trouble brewing before it happened. Call it a sixth sense but I knew something was about to disrupt our growing happiness.
Maybe it was starting the second job and seeing less of Javvy, despite him basically living in my cramped one-bedroom apartment. He hadn’t officially moved in, but he barely ever went home.
I suspected that George Child was giving him a fair amount of grief about it, but my lover never said anything about it to me. He was determined to make our budding relationship flourish, even though Javvy brought up his father with less frequency than he had before.
That morning, I was studying him across the kitchen island, a mug of coffee in my hand as the remnants of sleep still stubbornly clung to me. I’d worked at the office during the days
