Emily
I didn’t expect him to take it so calmly.
When the words left my mouth—Let’s break up—I had braced myself for something else entirely.
Anger.
A harsh laugh.
Maybe even Adrian completely losing his temper.
He was capable of it. I had seen flashes of it before—when someone crossed a line, when something threatened the things he cared about.
But he hadn’t crashed out.
He hadn’t raised his voice.
He'd simply asked questions I had no answer to.
Those dark eyes—usually steady, confident, almost teasing—had filled with something I had never seen before.
Pain.
And something worse.
Betrayal.
That look would probably haunt me for the rest of my life.
I couldn’t stay there after that. If I did, I might have taken the words back. I might have apologized, crawled across the space b
