♤Adrian♤ A knock came on the door and I looked up from the files I was buried in. After the meeting, I decided to stay back for some hours and sort out a few things that needed my attention. "Come in," I muttered, and the knob turned. Axel walked in. I sat up a little straighter. He had a tablet in his hands, and my eyes fell on them almost immediately. I flipped through the pages of the files, trying to act casual as though I wasn’t f*****g curious—I was. Curious as hell about what he’d come here for and what he had to say. "So, about what you asked me to look into this morning," he started, and I gave a curt nod, raising a brow. "Yeah?" "She was pretty easy to look into. Background and everything," he said, drawing out the seat in front of my desk and settling in like he owned the

