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“I know.”
Question after question tore through my mind at a rapid speed with no end in sight. There was so much I wanted to ask, to express, to confess…
I couldn’t. Cade would hate me.
He wouldn’t stand for it.
Not for one second.
Surprising me yet again, Adrian coaxed, “You want to know my dirty little secret, Paige?”
My head nodded on its own accord. As if I was simply his puppet. He controlled my strings.
My emotions.
My heart.
I desperately wanted to be loyal to Cade.
My chest ached from the concern about what was happening between us. It felt like I was cheating on my best friend with none other than his own flesh in blood.
I swallowed hard, dangling on the edge until Adrian snapped the cord by his admission, “I’m the reason they stay away from you, and I’ll continue to be the cause of why stay away from you.”
I sucked in a breath.
The back of his fingers caressed my cheek. “The summer before you entered high school, I made sure everyone knew your cherry was off-limits.”
This moment was the first time I started to think that maybe our past encounters weren’t merely a figment of my imagination. That thought only intensified as he began backing away from me uttering three words.
Those three little words had the power to change everything between us in a way I was never prepared for.
My strings fell at my feet when he professed…
“Especially, to me.”
Chapter Four
Adrian
Now: One week later
“Holy shit!” Paige shouted as her hand flew to her heart. “How the hell did you get into my apartment?”
I hadn’t seen her since the party, not for lack of trying.
Setting down the file I was holding, I informed, “I own the building.”
She jerked back. “Since when?”
“For the last two years.”
“How did I not know this?”
“I’m a silent partner.”
“Of course, I would move into the complex you own.” Instantly furious, she slammed the door behind her. “That still doesn’t give you the right to break into my apartment! I could have you arrested!”
“If you would answer my calls, texts, or emails then I wouldn’t have broken into your home. This is the consequence of your stubbornness.”
