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17: Why Me?
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Broken Vows, New Promises 18: The Escape
Aurora’s POVI stood there in the silence of the room, my heart racing, my mind a chaotic mess of thoughts and emotions. Damien’s presence loomed over me, his eyes still dark with intensity, yet there was a gentleness in them now—something I hadn’t seen before. His hands, which had once been possessive, were now relaxed at his sides, as if giving me space to breathe, to think.I needed space. I needed to think, to escape for just a moment.“Damien,” I said quietly, my voice trembling as I tried to steady myself. “I need to go back to my apartment.”His gaze darkened slightly, his jaw tightening as if he didn’t like the idea. But his expression remained calm, and his lips parted as though he might argue with me. Still, I could see the conflict in his eyes. He didn’t want to let me go—not after everything that had happened between us. But he knew, just as I did, that this wasn’t something that could be rushed. It wasn’t something that could be forced.“I just need to clear my head,” I c
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Aurora’s POVThe silence in my apartment was suffocating. The small space, which had once been my sanctuary, now felt like a cage. The walls seemed to close in on me, and no matter how much I tried to push the thoughts away, they kept creeping back—Damien, his touch, the heat between us, his overwhelming dominance.I sat on the edge of my bed, my mind racing, my heart still beating erratically from the events of the past few days. It felt like everything had been turned upside down. I had been so sure of who I was before Damien, so certain of my life and my choices. But now, I felt lost.His kiss, his touch—it was all so intoxicating, so consuming. And the way he looked at me… It was like I was the only person in the world to him. It made me feel powerful and vulnerable all at once. I hated it. I hated that he could affect me so deeply, that I couldn’t stop thinking about him, no matter how hard I tried.My thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. I froze. No one ever came to
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Aurora's POVI was still sitting on the couch when I heard the knock on the door, a sound that seemed to echo through the quiet apartment. My body tensed, and my heart skipped a beat. I knew who it was before I even moved toward the door.Adrian.I hadn’t seen him since the day I caught him with someone else. The betrayal had cut deeper than I wanted to admit, and now, here he was, back in my life. For what? To remind me of the life I was trying to escape? Or worse, to demand something from me?I took a deep breath and walked toward the door. My hand hesitated on the handle for a moment, and I felt the weight of the situation sink in. Damien had made his claim on me, and here was Adrian, the man who had once promised me everything, standing on the other side.As I opened the door, I saw him. Adrian Sinclair, tall and confident, with that familiar self-assured smile. But when his eyes locked on mine, the smile faltered for just a split second. He looked… surprised."Hi, Aurora," he sai
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Damien had insisted, gently but firmly, that I needed to come with him. He wasn’t taking no for an answer.His voice had been soft, but there was no mistaking the authority that underlay every word. His hands were still on me, the way they had been earlier, never leaving me for a second as he guided me toward the elevator. His grip was possessive, like a man who wasn’t willing to let go—of me, of the situation, or of whatever had been brewing between us since that very first night.“Come on, Aurora,” Damien had said, his voice a mixture of patience and determination. “You need to rest. You’ve been through too much tonight. I’m taking you somewhere safe, somewhere you can calm down.”I hadn’t been in the right state of mind to argue, and honestly, I didn’t know if I wanted to. Part of me still felt shaken from the confrontation with Adrian, and the idea of retreating to somewhere far from all the pain, all the memories, had a strange allure.The penthouse. Damien's penthouse.I had hea
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The next morning, the sunlight streamed through the vast windows of Damien’s penthouse, casting long, golden rays across the marble floor. The city beyond was waking up, its hustle and bustle a far cry from the stillness inside the penthouse.I sat at the dining table, my hands wrapped around a mug of coffee, but I couldn’t taste it. I couldn’t focus on the mundane. My mind was still caught in a whirlwind, torn between the betrayal of Adrian and the undeniable pull I felt toward Damien.I didn’t want to feel this way. I didn’t want to be caught in this storm of emotions, this battle between the remnants of a past that had shattered me and the overwhelming, dangerous allure of the man who had taken me in last night.I glanced over at Damien, who was across the room, his back turned as he paced, seemingly deep in thought. His posture exuded power, confidence, and a quiet intensity that was always there, even when he wasn’t speaking. The air between us was thick with tension, but it wasn
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Aurora’s POVThe drive to Damien’s office felt like an eternity. My hands were clasped tightly in my lap, trying to ignore the way my heart pounded in my chest. Damien, ever the calm and collected figure, sat beside me in the back of the car, his gaze focused, his body radiating an air of possessiveness I couldn’t shake.I had spent the past few days wrestling with the turmoil in my heart, the confusing pull toward Damien and the remnants of what I thought I had with Adrian. But I knew one thing for certain: there was no going back. Damien had made that clear.The car came to a slow stop in front of the towering glass building that housed Damien’s company, and my breath caught in my throat. I had always known Damien was powerful, but standing before the skyscraper that symbolized his dominance in the corporate world made the weight of his presence feel even heavier."Are you alright?" Damien’s voice broke through my thoughts, his gaze searching mine as he reached for the door.I force
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Aurora’s POVThe weight of Damien’s presence beside me seemed to intensify with each passing minute. After the awkward encounter with Adrian and Victoria in his office, I couldn’t shake the feeling of being caught between two worlds—two men—and the complicated emotions that swirled around them.The car ride back to Damien’s penthouse was quieter than usual. I was lost in my thoughts, trying to piece together the fragments of my shattered reality. The idea of Adrian being under Damien’s employ didn’t sit right with me. I could still hear his words echoing in my mind: “You’ll come back to me, Aurora. You always will.”But the thought of going back to Adrian felt like swallowing poison. After everything that had happened, after the betrayal, the lies—it was over. I was done. Yet, why did it still hurt? Why did it still feel like a wound that hadn’t fully closed?Damien’s hand rested on the back of my neck as we entered his penthouse, his touch grounding me in the present. I hadn’t even n
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Aurora’s POVThe days had passed in a blur since the night Damien brought me to his penthouse. I had spent hours lost in thought, wrestling with my emotions, but still unable to escape the hold he had on me. Damien was becoming something more than just a man I was falling for—he was quickly becoming my world. And that terrified me.I had already begun to accept the fact that Adrian and I were truly done, but I hadn’t yet reconciled the strange sense of peace I felt when I was with Damien. His presence was both grounding and unsettling, as though he was both offering me stability and pulling me into a whirlwind I wasn’t prepared for.It was late evening when Damien finally broke the silence that had been hanging between us for days.“Aurora,” he began, his deep voice cutting through the stillness. I turned to look at him, sensing the change in his tone—something serious, something final.I could already feel the weight of his words before he even spoke them.“I’ve been thinking about u
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Broken Vows, New Promises 120: What Remains
The wind whispered through the ruins.Ash floated like snowflakes across the mountaintop, softening the jagged scars left by the Vault’s collapse. Where once a hidden stronghold pulsed with synthetic power, there was now only silence and smoke. The earth had reclaimed what had been stolen.Damien sat at the edge of the cliff, a blanket draped over his shoulders. His wounds were mostly bandaged, but the tremors in his hands hadn’t stopped since the Vault fell. The neural link had left its imprint—somewhere deeper than skin.Behind him, Aurora stood quietly, arms crossed against the mountain cold. She didn’t speak, didn’t try to console. She just stayed, close enough to be an anchor, far enough to give him space.
Broken Vows, New Promises 119: Shatterpoint
The sound of the gunshot cracked through the cavern like thunder.Monroe’s body jerked back, blood blooming across his chest as he crumpled to the floor beside the pod. Silence followed, not triumphant—but taut, like the moment before a storm breaks.Damien didn’t lower his weapon.The others froze, waiting—watching. But Monroe didn’t move. His eyes were wide open, the smug smile finally erased from his face. The man who had haunted Damien’s entire life, who had orchestrated pain with the precision of a surgeon, now lay motionless in a widening pool of crimson.And yet, the hum of the chamber didn’t stop.Aurora stepped forward, her voice low.
Broken Vows, New Promises 118: The Threshold
The night sky stretched above them like a living thing—vast, starless, and full of tension. A bitter wind howled through the mountain pass as the convoy moved in near silence. Snow crunched under the tires of the armored vehicle Damien rode in, his eyes fixed ahead through the windshield.The coordinates they’d extracted led them to the Carpathians—a remote and treacherous range in Romania. Fitting, Damien thought. Monroe’s obsession with rebirth and myth had always leaned into the theatrical.And now they were heading straight into the heart of it.Inside the vehicle, the only sounds were the low hum of the engine and the rustle of gear. Julian sat beside Kira, reviewing surveillance feeds on his tablet. Behind them, Aurora sat opposite Damien, her gaze fixed o
Broken Vows, New Promises 117: Beneath the Silence
The makeshift war room inside the crumbling facility buzzed with quiet tension. Terminals flickered as Julian and Kira coordinated with their external networks. A map of the world lit up before them, glowing red dots pulsing across continents—every point marking an active Monroe site, every pulse a countdown.Forty-eight hours.Forty-eight hours until all of Monroe’s sleeper facilities would trigger whatever version of the clone protocol he’d perfected.Forty-eight hours until everything Damien had fought to bury would claw its way back into the light.He sat on the edge of a rusted cot near the far wall, away from the noise, elbows resting on his knees, head low. His mind replayed the voice from earlier—his mo
Broken Vows, New Promises 116: The Echoes We Carry
The room fell into a deafening silence as the flickering screen bathed Damien’s face in a sickly green glow. The image of his mother—Eve—stared back at him from the monitor, her features carefully reconstructed from footage and records. It wasn’t a live feed. It wasn’t really her. But the expression, the voice—it struck him with the force of a bullet.Aurora took a step closer, her hand brushing against Damien’s arm. He flinched at the contact, his eyes locked on the screen. She didn’t pull away.“Damien…” she said softly, uncertain if she should say more.But the screen spoke again, overriding her. “You’ve become everything I feared you would. Everything Monroe promised yo
Broken Vows, New Promises 115: Into the Heart of the Storm
The sound of the helicopter blades sliced through the heavy silence that had settled over them. The cold mountain air rushed in through the cracked windows as Damien stared out at the darkening sky. His thoughts were a jumble, every instinct screaming that something was off. There was too much at stake now—too much to lose.Aurora sat beside him, her body tense, eyes scanning the rapidly approaching mountainside below. She hadn’t spoken much since they left the apartment, and Damien could feel the weight of her silence pressing on him. It wasn’t the quiet of contemplation. It was the silence of someone holding something back. He could see it in the set of her jaw, the way her fingers gripped the seat.For a moment, the only sound in the helicopter was the hum of the engine, and then Julian’s voice broke the stillness. “We’re fifteen minutes out. Keep your eyes peeled. This place is off the grid—completely untraceable unless you have the right tools.”Damien nodded, his eyes never leav
Broken Vows, New Promises 114: A Thin Line
The quiet hum of the city beyond the windows was a constant reminder of how much had changed. Once, the world outside had seemed like a distant, almost irrelevant force to Damien. His focus had been on survival, on the mission—whatever that had meant at any given moment. But now, the hum of normal life felt like a harsh contrast to the chaos still simmering in the corners of his life.Damien stood by the window in the quiet of the early morning, his fingers lightly tracing the cool glass. His mind was far from the world outside. No, his thoughts were consumed with the girl he loved, the twisted legacy of Monroe, and the road that still stretched ahead.Aurora slept in the other room, the soft rise and fall of her chest a reminder that, for the first time in a long while, there was something worth fighting for. His gaze flickered over the city below, but he could barely make out the distant streets. The world beyond felt blurry, like everything was veiled in a haze. Maybe it was just h
Broken Vows, New Promises 113: Unraveling Threads
The soft murmur of rain against the windows filled the room, a rhythmic lull that did little to ease the storm brewing within. Aurora stood by the glass, her fingers tracing the faint condensation on the pane. The dim light of the early morning cast long shadows across the room, and despite the softness of the moment, a sense of foreboding lingered in the air. The storm outside mirrored the one inside her heart—a quiet tempest, powerful in its restraint.Damien stood just a few feet away, his gaze fixed on something unseen, his expression distant. The weight of what they had discovered weighed heavily on him, as it did on her. But it wasn’t just the revelation of the clones, or Monroe’s twisted experiments. It was the fear—the uncertainty of what this meant for them. For their future. How much had Damien been changed by everything he had learned? And how much of that change had already begun to stretch its dark tendrils into their relationship?She knew he was struggling. His silence
Broken Vows, New Promises 112 : Threads of Fire
Dawn arrived on the heels of nightmares. Damien stood alone on the rooftop of the safehouse, the sky above painted in hues of lavender and crimson. Smoke still lingered on his clothes from the underground lab, and his mind—still thick with memories and the ghost of Eli’s small, trusting voice—refused to settle.Aurora found him there, her silhouette framed in the soft glow of morning. She didn’t speak immediately. She stood beside him, their shoulders nearly touching. Together they watched the horizon, waiting for courage to catch up with conviction."I used to think dawn meant a new beginning," Damien said quietly. "Now it just reminds me of everything we have to survive."Aurora glanced at him, eyes soft. "New beginnings aren’t always gentle. Some are born in fire."His lips curled slightly at the edge. "You’re the only reason I can still feel anything."She reached for his hand and took it without hesitation. "You feel because you're still human. No matter what Monroe did. You’re s
