(Aurora's POV)
He laughed anyway. "Go ahead and look at me like that. Doesn't change anything." He straightened up, but his eyes didn't leave me. "My blood runs in your veins whether you like it or not. Funny how that works out."
He pulled up a chair and sat down across from me, elbows on his knees. But his posture wasn't conversational anymore - it was the posture of someone who had already decided the order of events and was simply deciding where to start.
"Here's how this works," he said. "The money you walked away with from that divorce. I want it."
I kept my voice flat. "The settlement isn't what you think it is. Any transfer requires me to be free to authorize it. You let me go first."
He shook his head slowly. "That's not how this goes. You think I'm stupid enough to hand you b
