(Author's POV)
"If you don't want me to take responsibility for you," he said pleasantly, "then I'd like to ask - who's going to take responsibility for me?" He paused. "Last night was my first time."
The room went completely silent.
Aurora stood very still and said nothing at all.
(Aurora's POV)
Olivia's face went completely red.
"That is a lie," she said, her voice sharp enough to cut glass. "An absolute, shameless lie, and you know it."
Gavin pressed his lips together and looked wounded. Genuinely, infuriatingly wounded.
"I'm just asking," he said, his tone perfectly mild, "whether you're really going to stand there and pretend it didn't happen."
Somehow, in the space of thirty seconds, the entire situation had inverted itself. Olivia, who had every right to be furious, now loo
