Chapter twenty-four.

~Ethan.

The girls started trooping in the day after the conversation I had with Mom but, even with all my attempts to concentrate on them, I could not seem to shake away the thoughts of my encounter with Aurora the previous night.

One minute, I was heading back to my chambers and the next, I had my hands around her neck, trying my very best to keep myself from pushing her against the wall and claiming those luscious lips of hers.

Her stubbornness aroused me. She was a sweet temptation and one thing was certain, I would not be able to hold myself back for long. It was only a matter of time before my strange surging desires for her consumed me and transformed me into something I wouldn't be able to control.

The girl in front of me chatted away like she and the four other girls before her and the three others next to her had been trained and wired to do.

Perhaps, I was supposed to be happy that finally, I was about to find the woman who would birth my successor but, the meeting with the