Aiden’s POV
“You are a beautiful enigma and it scares me.”
She had heard those words. I was certain of it. Perhaps it was cowardly of me to start to act like she did not exist after our encounter and if she noticed, she said nothing about it. What could she say? She was a maid and I was the Lord. The power inequality was vast and at the end of the day, even if I had said those words to her, it might have meant nothing to her. She might have thought it was one of the many games that I was trying to play. I wished it was.
When Damon had told me that Zora had reminded Marcellus of a promise that he had made to her to take her out for sightseeing and that he had agreed to let them go, I had felt a mix of emotions that were new and different for me. It was like stepping into a fresh part of
