[ Adelaide Knowles ]
I got out of the building, past the parking lot, and into the main road. There were not many cars on the street and I was so sure Christian Castillo wouldn't have cared whether I made it to his estate or not in his car and with a designated driver. The chill breeze splashed smoothly across my face. I pulled the blanket I had used earlier, closer to my body as I walked barefoot.
I had barely left the club when my phone chimed with a lot of notifications, a lot about our wedding pictures making it to the tabloids except that it was more of our smiling faces at Christian’s company and a monochrome picture of the rings on each of our fingers. The ring that I stared at right now as I replayed every scene from tonight.
The sullen abashment from earlier hit so hard, I wis
