HIS ROOMMATE

I LOVE YOU

CHAPTER 42

ADRIAN'S POV

I got in the car this morning with one thought: get to her. Even if it was just for the last time.

I didn’t expect luck to be that cruel.

Last night I didn’t sleep. Not one hour. I lay in bed and stared at the ceiling while Ash’s words kept looping in my head. Leo’s question. Mike’s silence. “Rejection hurts, but regret haunts forever.”

I kept thinking about morning. About what it would hold for me. For Kai. For us, if there was still an us left to hold.

So I went.

But the traffic had other plans. Slow. Stuck. Horns and brake lights stretching for miles. Every red light felt like a minute stolen. Every car in front of me felt like another second between me and her.

My chest got tighter with every block. What if I was too late? What if the doors closed befo