It started over something small.
That was always the way with the big ones. They never announced themselves. They arrived dressed as something ordinary and then grew into something else entirely before either person had time to prepare.
It started with a phone call.
Aurora was in the kitchen on a Wednesday morning when her phone rang and Liam Carter's name appeared on the screen. She had met Liam briefly at the work dinner two weeks ago. He was charming and easy to talk to and had made her laugh three times in the space of ten minutes, which was a reasonable rate for someone she had just met. He had asked for her number at the end of the evening and she had given it without thinking too much about it because he seemed harmless and friendly and she had not anticipated him actually using
