ARIA'S POV
The heels came off the second I closed my apartment door.
I dropped them right there in the hallway and didn't bother picking them up, I just stood on the cold floor in my bare feet and breathed for a minute.
I'd made it through. Smiled at the right moments, said the right things to the right people, let Dominic put me in a cab with his hand warm at my back and his voice quiet in my ear saying you were perfect tonight. I'd held it together for the entire cab ride home.
Now I sat down on the floor of my own hallway in a two hundred dollar dress and put my back against the wall.
My whole body was still tense. That specific tension that lives in your jaw and your shoulders and the back of your throat when you've been managing something in public and your body knows before you
