Every time she closed her eyes,Adrian’s voice echoed in her mind.
"Marry me,Emily."
It wasn’t just the proposal that unsettled her—it was the quiet certainty in his tone,like he had already decided this was inevitable.And what was worse…a small,reckless part of her wasn’t entirely against the idea.
She groaned and buried her face in the pillow.This is insane.
Emily tossed and turned,but sleep refused to come.The weight of the day pressed heavily on her chest—the whispers outside Mike’s office,the way he looked at that woman,the sound of his colleagues laughing as they speculated about her.
Her phone buzzed on the nightstand.
She knew who it was before she even looked.
Mike.
For a moment,she debated ignoring it,but curiosity—or maybe old habits—got the best of her.She unlocked her p
