NICOLAI'S POV
“Wait, what?” Jenna protests, her voice rising...
“Audrey, there’s no need for him to live on the premises. We can find him a suitable apartment nearby... He needs his own space.”
Audrey glares at her, the temperature in the car seemingly dropping ten degrees.
“I want a live-in bodyguard, Jenna. That was the deal. I’m so paranoid nowadays, you see. With everything happening with the merger... I might get targeted as a major executive of Hudson Holdings...” She sidles up to me fluttering her eyelashes as her hand slides into my arm. Her touch is cold, lacking the spark that Aria’s touch carries. “I need someone to protect me at all hours. What if someone breaks in while I’m sleeping?”
Jenna scoffs and rolls her eyes. ”Yeah... That's very likely.”
I stiffen.
Everything
