Chapter 20: INSIDER

ALARIC’S POV The sound of my pen moving over the paper in front of me was the only sound that filled the office. The door to my office cracked open,, but that was not enough to make me tear my attention away from the heaps of work in front of me. Not of the sound of heels clicking the floor, or the smell of her rosy perfume filling the air. Nothing was enough to make me look at her. I kept writing. Incantation notes, blood data...Selena’s. “You haven’t spent time with me lately,”...