Broken

[Nox]

Nox smiled as Elyse sat in his lap. He held her close, but she seemed to want more than he could offer. Bed seemed a good place to be right now. Today had been hard - on everyone. Dorian's confession to his wife though it seemed she was smarter than she pretended to be. Dorian was surprised by her admission.

Nox found that Dorian's secret however was probably worse than it could be. The Atharim watched everything on their data. They knew who saw what, it was to keep the data safe to know who leaked the information. Dorian had actually betrayed the Atharim. He wasn't the only one.

Nox pulled Elyse tighter against him. "My hacker friend tells me Ascendancy is in the hospital. The Atharim went for him. I knew that was probably what Aria was doing for the past few days. But we met Ascendancy this winter, he hired Aria for her talents. She's been working for Ascendancy and waiting for the opportunity to play her hand. She's in the same hospital as Ascendancy. I think her betrayal is greater than yours Dorian. I don't know the plan, all I know is Aria was leading people inside. Ascendancy lives which means the Atharim failed. Not only do we have to worry about the Atharim, we are going to have to worry about being called Atharim."


Dorian nodded. "It's late. We should all go get some sleep. The house is yours, don't feel confined to just your rooms."
Dorian stood up and headed for the stairs. Christian took Ana's glass and he followed her up stairs as well.

Nox waited before he stood up dropping Elyse to her feet. "Come on. I need sleep."
Nox could feel the tiredness in his body, yet he would still probably only get a few hours of sleep.

The house was horribly decorated and really didn't looked lived in despite all the furniture, there was nothing on the walls. And what was there was gaudy. It didn't look like anything the Vegas would have purchased and it made Nox wonder what was going on with that.

Upstairs was only a slightly different color than downstairs and the halls were dark thankfully Nox conjured a floating ball of light instead of finding the lightswitch so he didn't knock over the vases lining the wall.

His bedroom opened up into a suite before it opened to his own room. It was too much space for him. It was annoying living with rich people. The sitting area was devoid of anything but a single chair and a reading lamp. Thankfully the bedroom area was much better furnished with a nice soft bed and opened to the backyard. Nox pulled his shirt over his head and the jeans off his legs before he opened the blankets and crawled in waiting on Elyse to join him. Tonight he'd sleep, this wasn't about sex no matter what his body might say as his girlfriend curled up next to him. He kissed her on the forehead and wrapped her in his arms. "I got you,"
he whispered. It was mostly for himself that he said it, he had this, it wasn't any different than the day before. He had this. But his mind wouldn't shut down and his thoughts drifted to everything that happened that day...