Chapter 25
NORA
I stared at him, my chest heaving slightly, trying to read whether the fury in his voice was real or just another careful performance, the same kind I'd been giving Daniel for weeks now. But there was something different underneath it, something rawer than I'd seen from him before, a crack in the careful control he always carried like armor.
He looked rattled. Genuinely rattled, in a way I hadn't seen from him even at the courthouse, even when I'd first told him what kind of woman signs her wedding away to a stranger.
"If it wasn't you," I said slowly, my own fear rising back up to replace the anger, because I realized Adrian had no reason to hide it from me "then who was it?"
"I don't know," he said, and the admission seemed to cost him something, his jaw working like
