Serena’s POV

A full week had passed by in Daniel Hawthorne’s penthouse, each day feeling trapped into a world luxury and unspoken tension. Thank goodness I have Mia and Lila with me. I would have lost my freaking mind. And now when I lay awake, my crazy mind keeps on playing the way Daniel had claimed me against that wall and how he fucked me hard. I hated how my skin still tingled at the memory, how my body betrayed me even now.

This morning, I stood at the private elevator entrance on ...