Unwanted Investment

Dorian frowned at her words, obviously dissatisfied.

He lifted his gaze and studied Aria. "You know that's not what I meant," he said quietly. "Can you stop lacing every sentence with barbs?"

The chill she showed him now, so unlike the woman he remembered, unsettled him more than he cared to admit.

She hadn't been like this before.

Aria simply turned her eyes away, uninterested.

Her silence only m