#Chapter 115: Cracks In The Cage

Dominic POV Dominic had the pamphlets in his hands again and he sat behind his desk inside his study, the glossy paper crinkling slightly under his grip as his thumb glided over the top of them. He wasn’t sure which unsettled him more: what was printed on them, or the bright, almost trembling anticipation he’d seen in Aurora’s eyes when she’d presented them to him and waited for his answer. Universities. Classes. Degrees… the idea of Aurora out there, mingling with strangers he couldn’t vet and wandering across wide-open campuses with hundreds—maybe thousands—of people he didn’t know, in areas he couldn’t control, immediately set off alarms in his head. It wasn’t that he didn’t think she could handle herself, he knew she had a resilience most people underestimated, but Dominic had learned the hard way that you could be smart, capable, and cautious and still end up wrapped up with a psychopathic Russian halfway across the world if the wrong people decided you were worth tak