Sophie’s POV
The silence that followed felt heavier than the walls around us. Adrian’s stare pinned me in place, unreadable, unrelenting, until the weight of it burned against my skin. I turned away first, refusing to give him the satisfaction of seeing how much he unsettled me.
I reached for the door, needing air, distance—anything but the pull I felt when he was this close. But before I could touch the handle, his voice cut through the room.
“Where did Cole take you?”
I froze. The sharpness in his tone was more than suspicion—it was fury, controlled and dangerous.
Slowly, I turned back. “Does it matter?”
His jaw flexed, his hands curling into fists at his sides. “It matters when you’re walking straight into the hands of a man who’d tear you apart just to get to me. You don’t unders
