Chapter 137

Victoria's POV： I could feel a headache building as Damien finished heating our meal and placed it on the table. We ate in silence for a few moments before he broke it. "Why don't you stay at my place tonight?" His voice was casual, but I caught the underlying intensity in his smoky cedar scent. I swallowed my bite of food. "My room door is broken, not the entire apartment. There's no reason I can't stay here." Damien's storm-gray eyes locked with mine, something smoldering beneath their surface. "So you and Patrick Wagner are close enough for him to stay at your place, then?" "I already told you, my grandfather arranged it. And it's just staying over, not a big deal." I paused, nearly saying he could stay too before catching myself. The last thing I needed was Damien Sterling taking me up on that offer. "Friends stay over all the time. Grace could drop by whenever she wants. Don't you do the same thing? If your friends wanted to crash at your place, you'd let them, right?" A cold smil