Chapter 25 —A Distraction

Narrator:

Aylin was in the kitchen, arranging Sasha's snack tray, when the sound of heels echoed on the marble floor.

She didn't have to turn around to know who it was.

Roxanne's perfume arrived before she did. An intoxicating, expensive fragrance, the kind that lingers in the air like a damn mark of territory.

“Well, look at you... so dedicated to your role,” Roxanne's voice was honeyed, with that false sweetness that barely concealed the edge behind it. “I suppose yo