🏑KLAUS'S POV🏑
"Breathe, princess. She will be fine"
I cupped Adriana's face between my palms and forced her to look at me. Her breathing came out unsteady and broken, tears streaming down her face in a way that made me want to make everything right so she'd never cry again. I held her gaze for a moment before bending to grab both our bags and her phone from the library floor and slinging everything over my shoulder.
Then I guided her toward the door.
Theo was still outside the library door. His expression shifted the second he saw Adriana's face, concern replacing the easy grin he'd been wearing earlier.
He opened his mouth but I spoke first.
"Thanks, Theo. I owe you one."
His eyes moved between us before he nodded. "Hope everything's okay."
I gave him a look that said it wasn't an
