AIDEN POV
The bathroom door closed behind Perse.
And every murderous thought I had five seconds ago went straight out of the window.
For exactly three seconds, none of us moved.
Then Keres exhaled through his teeth.
“Fuck.”
Accurate.
Painfully accurate.
Water started running on the other side of the door, and that should not have meant anything. It was water. A shower. A basic hygienic necessity after the kind of night we’d had. Obviously the wet towel we’d used had done just the bare minimum and she needed to wash the night away.
Nothing erotic about that.
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Then Perse sighed.
Softly.
Barely loud enough to hear over the spray.
But I was so f*****g tuned with her I would have heard that miles away. Miles.
Keres turned his head toward me very s
