ADRIAN’S POV
The cane sliced across my face, but I didn’t budge.
Shit.
I’d recognize that f*****g cane anywhere.
A scowl passed through my expression, I grazed my hand on my jaw… the same goddamn jaw that can’t seem to catch a break lately.
What the hell is he doing here?
I looked up and met those ice-cold blue eyes. Eyes I used to know like the back of my hand… eyes that once froze me in place and haunted my sleep. But now, they didn’t drag out memories. Not easily. I’d buried those fuckers along with her, long, long ago, shoved them deep, long and far.
I quickly pushed whatever emotions were trying to claw their way up right back down.
Fuck them and f**k him.
I looked him straight in the eye… like I always had to. Like he’d always forced me to.
“No flinching. No twitching. Or y
