#Chapter 17: A Warning In The Shadows

Dominic POV Last night was unexpected. More so than he ever could have imagined. After tossing Theo out into the hallway, bloody and beaten, Dominic had the unmistakable urge to gather Aurora up into his arms, watch her as her senses were dulled by exhaustion and the lingering traces of the drug that had been used against her. She had trusted him, leaned into him when she’d drifted in and out of consciousness all night, trusted him to take care of her in a way that made something deep inside his gut tighten—an unfamiliar emotion he refused to name. But those moments between them could only last for so long before reality set in, this time in the form of a knock at the door. Opening the door, Romero stood with a stoic expression, nothing betraying his thoughts aside from his gaze flickering over Dominic’s shoulder to the occupied bed for a second. He didn’t even blink at the sight of them caught behind closed doors together, or comment on how unkempt Aurora’s appeara