CHAPTER 15
ADRIAN’S POV
I dropped her off at her apartment and didn’t immediately drive off. I should have.
That would’ve been clean and efficient. Like everything else in my life. But I stayed a second longer than necessary.
Chris was there. I noticed him before she did. Of course I did.
He was standing too close to the entrance, like he had been waiting, like he had a right to still be part of her space. The kind of presence that didn’t belong anymore but still lingered anyway. Lara saw him and slowed slightly. That was enough.
My eyes met Chris’s first. Then I looked at Lara. And I said it.
“Goodnight, Little lamb.”
Her head snapped up immediately. Confusion first. Then something sharper, realisation. Chris stiffened. Good. That was the point.
Lara didn’t understand what I was
