#Chapter 41: Shadows Of Doubt

Aurora POV After almost an entire week living at the safehouse, Gianna and I are returned to my family’s estate with little reason behind the sudden change. Days slip by without a single word from Dominic. The silence is maddening, pressing against me like the edge of a blade poised at my throat. I thought the wait for my forced marriage to Leonardo was torture but this is infinitely worse. Every minute that passes without hearing from him only feeds the paranoia gnawing at my insides. Will he soon force my hand? Worse yet, he could already be planning something to ensure my answer to his proposal is a resounding ‘yes’ like he expected to hear the moment he presented it to me. His face had been surprised by my hesitancy, not at all expecting for me to not jump at the chance to marry him. Funny how confident he’d been in hindsight considering he’d been the one that forced me to get some kind of a backbone by blackmailing him right back. I pace my bedroom incessantly, t