Chapter 25All through the workweek, a war raged in my guts between the two Adrians, pre- and post-Badger.
The old Adrian was poised to wallow and lament, to second-guess everything she’d said to him and beat herself up for ruining the happiest few weeks in her recent history.
But the new Adrian, the one Badger had fostered with his kindness and later his cruelty, was filled as much with annoyance as regret.
Fuck him, if he was continuing to be a d**k just because I’d tried to connect with him like a normal human being. That’s what he was, after all — the human part, if not the normal. f**k him if something I’d said made him skittish, made him want to drive me away. Fine. Away I’d stay.
Fuck, f**k, f**k him.
But I was still relieved when he resumed his duties and the BBW news began flo
