AURORA POV
I didn’t expect the ache.
Not between my legs, not in my skin, not even in the way his body pressed me down into the mattress. No. The ache bloomed in my chest, sharp and twisting, the moment he confessed.
“I have to make a confession, baby girl,” Stan rasped, his voice wrecked, trembling like he was forcing the words out against his own pride. “It’s going to be the first time for me doing it…”
For a heartbeat I thought I’d misheard. My pulse stuttered, my lips parted, and I searched his eyes for a smirk, a joke, something to break the sudden weight in the room. But there was nothing. No jest, no mask. Just him, raw, stripped bare in a way more terrifying than teeth and claws ever could be.
and Tairin whispered. 'He’s giving us the truth.'
He went on, blurting like the wor
