#Chapter 99: A Final Truce

Aurora POV When I wake, the first thing I notice is how heavy my hand feels. For a moment, I think it’s nothing, just sleep lingering in my limbs, but then my eyes land on the glint of metal that catches the faint morning light when I raise my hand to brush the sleep out of my eyes and catch something familiar. My engagement ring. It sits perfectly on my finger as if it never left. My breath hitches and a strange sound escapes me, a half sob, half laugh. I press my palm to my chest as tears sting the backs of my eyes, spilling over before I can stop them. I shouldn’t feel like this. Not after everything. The betrayal, the weeks of convincing myself I hated him enough to let him die, was supposed to harden my heart. But here I am crying over a ring and what him putting it on me again means. No matter how far I tried to run or how much venom I let Alek pour into my head, deep down I still wanted this. And now I know Dominic still wants me too. He put the ring right back