Chapter Seventy Seven

An electric shock passed through Aurora as blue eyes collided with blue eyes and the locked door in her brain sprang open wide. The glass in her hand fell to the table, the red wine, spreading like a blood stain as she leaped to her feet.

‘Phillipe’

The word was a gasp of pain as she fainted her brain unable to process everything quickly enough it shut down and he caught her. Scooping her up he carried her into his room and laid her on the bed, quickly locking the door behind him. When she came around he did not want any distractions and ignored Jasmine's anxious knocking.

‘Phillipe, Phillipe don’t do this’

She begged him but he leaned on the door and said quietly,

‘I have to’

Aurora came round quickly stirring on the bed and opening her eyes she sat up,

‘Phillipe?’

He turned to look at her his heart in his eyes,

‘I remember you’

She whispered,

‘I heard you, the things you said. I heard it all.’

He sat on the bed next to her,

‘Then you know how I feel’

She reached up her hand and cupp