The next day
Aurelia looked at herself in the mirror and did a small turn in front of it. She was already dressed for work and couldn’t wait to get back to it.
As for Lucian? He had been absent the entire night, and Aurelia hated to admit that once again, she had missed him. She wished he had been there, even as she wondered where he had gone all night.
Business wasn’t done at night, right?
So what could he have been doing?
A tiny part of her whispered that Lucian had spent the night with another woman, but Aurelia pushed the thought away. The last time she had suspected such a thing, she had been wrong.
She picked up her bag and turned toward the door just as it opened.
Lucian Romano stepped into her room, fully dressed and looking as majestic as ever.
His brows arched as his eyes
