Chapter Seven
Aura
I felt like he was hiding things from me, and it wasn’t a good sensation. Almost overnight, we’d gone from two kids in love to being wary and suspicious of one another. If we weren’t fighting, we weren’t talking.
Mose nights, I spent at my own place; the cavernous walls of the mansion seemed to haunt me when I was there. Don’t get me wrong; the house was gorgeous with its marble and wainscoting. I would be insane not to marvel at the beautiful artwork and calamander flooring. It truly belonged in Town and Country, but it was also alive with the memory of George Child.
It hadn’t occurred to me that Javvy found peace in the house in the absence of his father. To me, it seemed that the greedy CEO’s spirit had seeped into the walls like Cimmerian with unseen tentacles of
