“Aurelia has many surprising skills,” Lyle says slowly, purposefully. Both Savage and I go still. “But she’s also very good at hiding things right under my nose.”
Every instinct I have tells me to bundle Aurelia in my arms and take her up to my bed where we should spank her for her audacity and then dress her in warmer clothes.
I take a moment to centre myself, wondering how the fuck things ended up here and remembering the entire thing is my fault. “Right,” I say to myself. “Get your shit together.”