SLOANE
I should feel fear, and confusion. But I didn’t feel shy of that. If anything, I was numb. First, he’d wished me into his car and we drove for a long distance down a lonely street that led us to the massive penthouse. From the look of things, this was the only house in the lit up avenue.
“Where are we?”
“My hideout,” He didn’t sound like he was teasing me. He got down from the car, and started heading towards the entrance of the house, when he suddenly stopped and turned to face me. “Are you going to remain there?”
I pushed the door open, and quickened my steps to catch up with him. ‘This isn’t real, Sloane. None of this is real, it’s just an act,’ I tried to remind myself.
Being all warm and cozy with Adrian in public was one thing. Tearing out of the trance when no one wa
