Page 92 of Gothikana

It was the little things behind the big thing that touched her.

God, she loved him, so, so much.

She didn’t know when she fell, when her lust transformed into this deep-seated need, or if she even fell in one moment or gradually. It didn’t matter. The end result was that she did.

Leaving it all behind just as she found it, Corvina tucked the note inside her top and walked out of the office to see the girls giving their measurements.

She must have been wearing some kind of look on her face because Roy raised her eyebrows at her. ‘Yo, freaky eyes, did you smoke something in the office or what?’

Corvina mentally shook herself, schooling her face. ‘If there was anything worth smoking here, I’m sure you’d be the first to know, Roy,’ Corvina ribbed back, comfortable enough with the girl and her brash but well-meaning ways by now.

Roy rolled her eyes and stepped up to get measured.

‘So, what was in the office?’ Jade asked her as they waited at the side.

‘A letter.’ Corvina gave her the truth. ‘From someone important.’

Their turn to give measurements came and Corvina complied, well aware that people would question it if she didn’t. The tailor, however, knew she already had a gown, probably Vad getting things set up, and simply pretended to take Corvina’s measurements.

Within a few minutes, they were done and walking out of the building under the beautiful, sunlit day, when the wind carried the scent of sandalwood to her, and immediately after she heard Mo’s voice.

‘That house, Vivi.’

Corvina froze.

What house?

The creepy shack in the woods?

‘What’s wrong?’ Jade paused at her side, looking at her with worried eyes. ‘You just froze, Cor.’

Corvina blinked as the scent disappeared, opening her mouth to tell her but something stopped her, with all the other girls around. She shook her head, her eyes spying a familiar figure talking to a guy at the other end of the wing.

‘Nothing, I just remembered I had to talk to Troy’s brother about something,’ she told Jade, pointing toward Ajax’s big form. ‘You go on. I’ll meet you in a few.’

Jade glanced between her and Ajax, her eyebrows going up. ‘Oh god, he’s the hickey guy!’

Corvina almost denied it, then shut up. Better she thought that than the truth.

‘Damn, girl,’ Jade grinned. ‘He’s fiiine. Go see him. Catch you later.’ With a fluttery wave of her fingers, Jade was gone.

Corvina took a deep breath and headed toward Ajax.

He spotted her coming, and the determined look on her face, and excused himself from the guy he’d been speaking with.

‘Do you have some time?’ Corvina began without preamble.

His face got serious. ‘Sure. We’re just finishing the forensics at the lake. What’s going on?’

She looked around, checking no one was within hearing distance. ‘I need you to come to the woods with me.’

His big body straightened. ‘What’s going on, Corvina?’

‘There’s a shack in the woods,’ she began, not knowing how to tell him what she knew without telling him what she knew. ‘Do you know it?’

Ajax frowned. ‘I don’t think so. Why?’

‘Just come with me,’ she told him, buying time. ‘I’ll tell you on the way.’

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