HIS DOE, HIS DAMNATION (An Erotic Billionaire Romance) novel Chapter 154

Meadow’s POV:

“Cami, can I ask you a question?”

I was seated in a chair in front of the mirror while she worked on my hair. Tonight was Clarissa’s opening party, and yes–I was still going.

Mainly because I hoped that HE would be there.

Alaric.

My heart still ached whenever I thought about him, and a simple fix would be to simply stop thinking about him but I couldn’t. He was connected to everything. My thoughts literally revolved around him.

Just like right now.

Camilla met my eyes in the mirror briefly, giving me a small smile before she went back to curling my hair. “ Sure, what’s up?”

My lips parted and then closed back. I didn’t know how to word my question without seeming nosy or like I was prying into business that wasn’t mine.

And then I swallowed, and decided to ask anyway. “Your mother told me once that you were upset about Alaric wanting to open up a salon for you and taking your business to the next level…” I trailed off when she met my eyes in the mirror again.

However, she didn’t seem upset. So I continued. “I don’t know if it’s wrong of me to ask this but I just wanted to know why.”

Camí heaved a sigh. At first, I thought she was annoyed, but then I realized that she had a sad smile on her face and a look in her eyes that I couldn’t decipher.

Shit.

“I’m sorry,” I said quickly. “If it’s too much, you can just ignore-”

“Alaric saved my mother and 1,” she cut in, her throat bobbing as she swallowed. “My father… he was pretty abusive, drunk all the time, you know? And Mama could never really leave because she was dependent on him, and even though she worked for the Ashfords and was getting paid, he kept taking it.” She paused. “I was only a little girl but I hated him so much. But Alaric, he… he saved us.

She left that sentence hanging, and for lack of better words, I asked: “May I ask how?”

Camilla froze then, her grip tightening around the culer for a second, and then she spoke again. “That’s the thing I don’t know. Mama never told me, and to be honest… I never cared to know. I still don’t.”

My heart stuttered.

She shrugged. “And I don’t think you should care or be curious about it either. All I know is that I grew up with my mama, and never looked back again. I never forgot it though. Never. And neither did she. It’s why we feel indebted to him even though he’s reminded us so many times that we owe him nothing.”

My throat tightened. “So you don’t want him doing anything for you?”

Cami ran a hand through her short hair. “It’s not exactly that. I just… I mean, yeah, sure, I think that’s it.” She let out a nervous laugh.

I didn’t ask any other questions, and Cami continued with my hair. But I couldn’t concentrate.

On one hand, I wanted to know what Alaric did to her father, but on the other hand… this was something that Cami wanted to forget, and I wasn’t about to open old wounds.

In no time, she was done with my hair, and when she pulled back to let me give myself a proper look, my eyes widened.

My hair.

I had Cami cut it short. No, not that short. Just to my shoulders. I wanted to try something new. If my sister was going to keep pretending to be me, she would try to channel that tonight if she was coming–which I had no doubt she was.

But I wasn’t going to make it easy for her to copy me.

However, I didn’t expect it to look this good.

“Oh my gosh!” Nova exclaimed, her jaw dropping wide open as she stepped into the room. “Who are you?”

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