Selene’s POV
I left to the room where Aria was sleeping since Dominic was hell-bent on not letting me go, I was going to sleep with my baby then. It smelled faintly of clean linen.
Sleep didn’t come easily, not with the weight of everything that had just happened. But I didn’t close my eyes until I moved Aria’s crib across the room and wedged a chair beneath the door handle.
Even then, it wasn’t sleep. It was survival-mode unconsciousness.
I woke up the next day, the sun was already slicing through the windows. A knock came, soft on the door. It was one of the maids in the house, her eyes downcast, her words brief told me Dominic had arranged a driver to take me home whenever I was ready. No questions asked.
He wasn’t there to see me off. That was exactly like him. And I didn’t know w
