Adrian’s pov. The walls of the hotel room felt like they were closing in on me. It was strange, sitting here, knowing that I had walked away from everything. Everything I had built, everything I thought I wanted—it was all gone. My father had made sure of that. Just as he promised, he froze my accounts and took back the properties under his name. I couldn’t say I was surprised. It was the price I had to pay for choosing Katherine over the life he planned for me. But, honestly, I didn’t care. I still had my own investments, my own path. I didn’t need him, or his money, or his control. I will expose the fact that I was AD arts and I would do the thing I've always loved to do. I knew I could never go broke. But what I did need—what was eating me alive—was Katherine. She hadn’t spok

