*Daisy*
I'm dressed in a dark green frock that's appropriate for a she-wolf of business, hugging my aunt before I climb into the car that will take me to my office. I've slept fitfully every night since Ace delivered me to my aunt's house.
It hurt to find out he doesn't trust me. It makes me feel like the foundation of our relationship was a lie, except for our time at the Fair and Spare, the minutes when I tended to his injured hand, and those moments in the former brothel when I learned the truth about him. When we were so close, when our lips met with the force of molten lead being shaped into something new.
That's how I feel. I'm no longer who I was but have been irrevocably changed into someone else. It's both exhilarating and frightening.
But it made me open to his attentions in
