I'd just landed a job offer from a company way bigger than Pierce Corp when my apartment doorbell rang.
When I pulled the door open, Adrian was standing on the other side of the threshold.
It had only been two weeks since we'd last seen each other, but he looked like a completely different person.
The whites of his eyes were crisscrossed with raw red veins, his whole face etched with bone-deep exhaustion and jittery anxiety.
The second he spotted me, he lunged forward a whole step.
"Evelyn! You finally agreed to see me!"
I blocked the doorway, my face completely blank, and stared coldly back at him.
Adrian fumbled frantically to open the velvet box he was holding. A huge, glittering diamond ring stared back at me, catching the light from the hallway.
He dropped to one knee right t
