Shaken

Ava checked out of the hotel suite the moment she was able to leave the rooftop with her kids, and she didn't say anything to them till the chauffeur arrived and the nanny packed their bags into the car. Autumn kept asking her mother nonstop if everything was fine with her and Ethan, but she just smiled occasionally and nodded without giving a definite answer.

She could not even blame the poor helpless nanny that had called her endlessly when they saw Ethan, because there was nothing that the poor woman would have done in that situation. Ethan's intimidating aura was enough to make her cower.

Ava left immediately when he finally let her go after their meeting at the rooftop balcony, and it was still hard for her to understand what had happened in there with him. It momentarily felt like she had not been in control of her own body for a while.

Still, her heart dwelt in the suffocating grip of fear of what Ethan was capable of doing concerning the kids. The fact that he was endlessly