SILAS’S POV
If you had told me before that getting Aurora to lay on me half-naked was to pass out and get sick, I would have done it much sooner. She held her hand over her breasts and an arm around her stomach now as she slowly walked back to me from locking the door. She was nervous.
I held out my arms to her, gesturing for her to join me, hopefully once again, to lay on me half-naked. But instead, she sat down on the edge of the bed, her eyes not meeting mine. “Aurora.”
She didn’t look up. “Yes?”
“Come on. Get back like you were.”
She shook her head. “I don’t want to crush you.”
I sat up, shifting to wrap an arm around her shoulders. “Don’t. Don’t ever think like that.”
She still refused to look at me. “I can’t help it.”
I reached up, placing my fingers on her chin, slowly forci
