Aria’s POV
Morning came quickly and before I was barely up, Damien got a call and told me he was leaving to sort out some things and left .
I stayed up all morning thinking about the attack last night and what they will do to me if the found me. Maybe Damien was right that I was save with him or maybe he was wrong
The Clock was ticking. It was past two in the afternoon, and Damien hadn’t returned yet. My heart rate was through the roof, and I was close to a full-blown heart attack from imagining what he might have heard over that call, why he left so suddenly, and why he hadn’t come back yet. I imagined everything bad under the sun, every possible thing that could go wrong, every dark thing a man like him might do if he knew what I was hiding.
What if he had caught Mateo and forced th
