Chapter 7
Skye's POV
I didn't sleep that night. Not even for a minute.
I lay in bed staring at the ceiling with the contract sitting on my nightstand like a ticking bomb. Every time I closed my eyes‚ I saw the number. Thirty thousand dollars. Every time I tried to think about something else‚ my brain dragged me right back to that office‚ to his voice‚ to the way he looked at me when he said he wanted every single inch of me.
By five in the morning‚ I gave up pretending I was going to rest and went to the kitchen. I made coffee I didn't drink and toast I didn't eat‚ and I sat at the table doing math on the back of a grocery receipt.
Thirty thousand dollars a month for six months. That was one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
I wrote the number down and stared at it until my eyes b
