Chapter 5

Aurelia's POV

When I woke up in the morning, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. I knew I had not slept more than two hours because we had spent the entire night having sex. I could not wait to tell my best friend the details of last night.

I extricated myself from Killian's hold and put on my clothes in a rush then hurried the hell out of the room. With any hope, I would never see him again.

Last night had been beyond delightful but I did not want to repeat it again. It had been easy to surrender my body to a stranger that way because I knew I would not have to face him in the morning or ever again.

I checked my phone and saw that I had six missed calls from my mother. I ignored them and called my best friend instead. She answered on the second ring.

“Hey bestie,” I said, my voice felt alive. I felt alive, more than I had ever been. Who knew sex could cause such a revival of the soul? God knew I wasn't thinking about Carl and his stupid cheating ass anymore. In fact, he had opened a door for me, one I never knew existed before, BDSM. I could not wait to fill Audrey in on all the details and tell her of my newfound joy.

“You sound… Did something good happen?” she asked. I knew she would notice the lightness in my tone, like all my problems had been washed away.

“More than good, great! You will not believe what happened to me last night!” I said with excitement.

“You slept with the sexiest man on earth, I know that already. I saw you two head upstairs,” came her response. I could hear the pride in her voice for convincing me to get out last night.

“That is just the tip of the iceberg,” I said, I was certain my face was flushed even though I could not see it.

“Okay?” she drawled.

“By the way, where the hell are you?” I asked her.

“Just in the… oh! I've seen you,” I turned around and saw her in the same clothes as last night. I was guessing she'd had quite a night too. After all, she was the queen of one-night stands even when she dated. Once, she had woken up beside the guy she was currently dating. That was how she had found out he was a cheat but it had been double-edged information because she was a chronic cheat too.

“Hey, you're glowing!” she noted, pulling me into a hug.

“Ooof! We both need a scrub!” I said and we laughed.

We left the club and walked towards my car.

“You think we're good to drive?” I asked her.

“We drank last night, I don't even have a headache. We didn't drink that much,” she said and it was true.

I had barely finished three glasses when I walked over to Killian.

Killian.

That was a name I would never forget.

His face, his hands, his methods, I would never forget any of it.

“So, details!” she squealed.

“BDSM,” I said, it was all I said to summarise my experience.

“Wait, what? The bastard should be arrested!” she screamed and I brought the car to a sudden halt.

“What the hell are you talking about? It was between two consenting adults,” I said to her with a smile.

“Okay, okay, it's just… there's supposed to be like a contract where you state what you're comfortable doing and what you're not and…”

“Trust me, I was comfortable with every single thing,” I returned with a cheeky smile.

“So? You've finally entered my world. I thought you said those who did things like that are freaks,” she said with a teasing smile.

“I still think that but honestly, I don't mind being a freak,” I said with a shrug and we laughed.

“So on a scale of 0-10, how good was he?” she asked me.

“Fifteen”

“That's… Wow! It must've been mind-blowing. So you'll be open to being more adventurous in bed, huh? None of that boring shit you and… I'm sorry… I didn't mean to remind you…”

“It's okay, you can say it. I am so over him,” I could not believe I could say that with a smile. But after last night? I knew I had dodged the bullet of boring sex and I certainly had no regrets.

“In that case, maybe you'll be open to, you know, a threesome,” she said slowly.

“Maybe,” I shrugged.

How would sleeping with two people at once work?

But then, before last night I had thought trying to mix pain with pleasure and surrendering one's body completely during sex was crazy so what did I know?

I drove over to Audrey's house and spent the day sleeping at her place.

In the evening, I went home, hoping my mother had changed her mind once more about getting married.

But as I climbed the stairs, she remarked, “You're home!”

“What is it, Mom?”

“Come downstairs in thirty minutes. I told my fiancé, my daughter would be having dinner with us,” I rolled my eyes and went to my room.

Perhaps meeting this man was not a bad idea. I could convince him that she was not the woman he should marry.

I would wear the most revealing dress I had and talk crassly and swear at the table. I knew ultra-wealthy men did not like that sort of thing.

So thirty minutes later, I was downstairs in my most daring outfit.

I heard my mom gasp and the man beside her inhale.

But I knew that I was going to faint because my mother's fiancé was Killian.

“So,” my mother cleared her throat, “Killian, meet my daughter, Aurelia, Aurelia, meet my fiancé Killian. He's to be your stepfather really soon.”

My stepfather, huh? Why was the universe against me?

My mother looked between us as we remained silent.

“Have you two met before?” she asked us.

Met before?

We had done more than meet, we had fucked our brains just twelve hours ago.