Emily
I didn’t hear from Adrian the entire next day.
Not a message, not a call, not even one of those short, possessive little notes that usually had me reading and rereading them until my chest ached.
He must still be angry.
I wanted to call him so badly. I wanted to ask questions, explain myself, maybe even apologize. But the truth was… I didn’t have the answer he wanted. And worse, I knew that whatever I said would only fan the tension between us.
Too much was at stake.
I kept reminding myself of that as I sat in the car on my way to work, the city moving in a blur outside the window. I was certain I wasn’t ready to lose everything for a relationship that couldn’t even exist publicly.
In a society like ours, scandal was death. Social death, with whispers that lasted years and fam
