Chapter 204

LILY

My consciousness began to stir, and my lids reluctantly fluttered open, catching the fluorescent glow close to the dressing mirror in front of my bed.

Seeing Adler seated silently in the dark, facing the mirror and cleaning a gun with a small torch, the scale left my eyes, and I sat up, letting the covers drop to my waist.

Since the confetti bomb attack three days ago, he had been a shadow of himself, gazing into space when he was with me, and when we embraced, he did it like it was going to be the last time he would see me.

Also, he refused to tell what exactly had occurred that night. When he did, it was to loosely explain that he had overreacted. Which I knew he hadn't. Kyra refused to tell me a thing, and Adler made sure Rune was nowhere close to me to spill the truth.

But I noticed that the soldiers that roamed the Manor's compound had doubled, and when Adler wasn't around for the night, a couple of them stood by my door, refusing to say a thing even when my eyes d