CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
LARA’S POV
It was 6:35 a.m., and I was supposed to be getting ready for work. Instead, I had been standing by my window for almost ten minutes, staring at the sunrise slowly stretching across the city skyline. The sky looked beautiful. Soft orange melting into pale pink. It looked calm and peaceful, very unlike my current emotional state.
I wrapped both hands around my cup of tea absentmindedly, smiling faintly to myself. As days passed, my relationship with Adrian kept changing naturally. We talked more now.
Not just inside the office anymore, but through texts late at night too. Sometimes he would randomly ask if I had eaten. Sometimes he’d send dry one-word replies that somehow still made me laugh.
And without realizing it, I had become comfortable with him. Th
