Aurora's POV
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"S–Sorry for asking your highness." Seraphyne's voice broke Aurora out of her reverie. "I'm just wondering what you're... Doing here. This is a tier one hotel after all and..."
She paused, batting her eyelashes at Aurora like she knew she was asking too much.
She wasn't.
"You're right." Aurora chuckled lightly, leaning more comfortably on the counter. "I usually won't be caught dead in one of these. Last time was because of some... Hiccups beyond our control."
For the briefest moment, her mind flashed back to Magnus and the tiny hope she'd still clung to back then that he would come back to his senses and beg for her forgiveness.
Only to have that hope shattered when Estella came back and announced he was killed by Kyren.
And before that, she still remembered the soul-ripping pain she went through when she felt the mate bond break due to Magnus' death.
She once hated that man... But that pain was something she never wanted to experience again.
