ADRIAN POV
You know that restless feeling when you've committed a crime so deep, yet all you can do is watch and try to explain-but no one listens? That was me. I tried. Every f*****g time. Every f*****g day, I reached out to Violet. Calls, text messages... None of it f*****g worked.
And when I couldn't bear the guilt and the waiting any longer, I showed up at her house. Same f*****g story. She wouldn't see me. Her father made damn sure of that.
But I didn't stop. I kept pushing. Kept fighting. Kept hanging around.
Ares had been a mess. I had been a f*****g mess. These days without her were hell. Sleep wasn't peaceful anymore-it was a haunting reminder of the way she used to lay close to us, how I'd inhale her scent like it was the only air I needed.
Fuck. f**k. f**k and f**k. I've m
