Chapter 31
NORA
I glanced at Adrian across the table, his expression carefully blank, though I could see the tension in how still he was holding himself, listening to every word of my half of the conversation.
"Nothing's changed," I said into the phone, soft, careful, the same reassuring warmth I'd perfected over weeks of exactly this kind of test. "I promise. I think the wedding just changed something in how I see things. I want to be someone you can be proud of, not just someone decorating your life. That's all this is."
I watched Adrian's mouth curve slightly at that, recognizing his own advice handed back exactly the way he'd given it to me weeks earlier, and something in his expression eased, just slightly, approval flickering there before he schooled it back into stillness.
Dani
