I got in.
Not because I had an answer but because the other choice was worse. If Adrian Vale knocked on that front door, Damien would see him, same as Bella. The whole house would know I had been with the one man in this city whose name could ruin me.
The door shut. The car was quiet. It smelled like leather and his cologne. The same scent from last night.
He didn’t look at me at first. He just drove.
We only went a few streets away. Not far enough to disappear but far enough that the mansion lights were behind us.
He parked under a tree and turned off the engine.
Then he held out my ID.
I took it. My fingers brushed his and immediately i felt my heart beating rapidly. I pulled my hand back fast.
“There,” I said. “I have it. Now take me back.”
He stared for a moment before speakin
