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[LILY'S POV.]"...I won't act like I'm not pleased, you know," Salvatore confessed as he swerved the car towards my working place.I narrowed my eyes at him, and he smiled sheepishly. He was driving me to work, my bag on my lap, and my hands still fidgety from the last time I and Adler spoke."Come on, Lily, don't act like it wasn't for the best. Yes, Adler might have presented it unconventionally, which is Soo him," he shrugged, "But I'm sure it was for the best."Unconventional was an understatement to his presentation. Correctly, it should be aggressive, and he still managed to send it across poorly.***"Sit down." Adler had ordered two days ago as I stood in his room. Making me wonder, why room? Didn't they have an office for this sort of thing?I noticed a video projector sitting just at the edge of the large, black spread covered bed as I entered the room. The curtains were grey, and I noticed he had rushed to throw a gun into a drawer.The sight of a big bed was setting off a
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Adler had told me I should be assertive, right? He had said not to flinch, speak my mind, and even demand what I want.But what if that person was everything your trauma embodied? What if you couldn't help but want to create enough distance because you never really moved on from him?"Honey," Clare's calm voice reached me as my fingers clutched tightly at my gown, and my knuckles turned white. "Are you okay?"Was I okay? No, I wasn't. I turned to her and nodded, lips curving as usual, "Yes, I am fine," I bent down to pick up the book I had let go some seconds ago, holding it as if it could protect me.Greg let his eyes roam on the walls, the ceiling, and even the senior citizens and my well-to-do cousin did not hesitate to show the disdain he held for every one of them.Finally, his attention was back on me, and he motioned to the door with his pupils, "Come on, somewhere private."I would have said no, told him to leave, call security on him, but knowing our history of how situation
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AUTHOR'S POV [ADLER]"Athena," Domenico pushed the pile of pictures to his son across the table, who stared at it confusedly, "She's beautiful, smart, and the perfect choice for getting more influence and unique heirs."If only his father understood he wasn't here at the moment, he checked his watch for the thousandth time that evening.Lily wasn't back yet, and Salvatore, as usual, left his fucking phone; he wondered what was keeping them. And while he decided to reassure himself she was okay and might be a few delays, with each minute that passed, he became restless.To give himself something to do, he stared down at the pictures.He'd give it to this 'jewel of Italy,' she was a beauty, more like a glittering pearl. He dropped the first picture, feeling bored already.The thing was, if he were still running around, still finding Lily, she still wouldn't have done it for him. With hair darker than coal and eyes a beautiful shade of brown.But still...Where the hell was Lily? He look
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AUTHOR'S POV.It was at three the next day that Adler had thrown on a black hoodie and was making his way to the garage to pull out the most ordinary car in the manor when he found Priest, Rune, and Kyra training in a ring.They each had their hands wrapped, attacking and defending, and as usual, Rune had all of his attention on Kyra, provoking her to draw blood from him.Rune had his special kind of madness.As he passed them, they all stopped; Priest walked up to the rope, resting against it with his arms out of the strings as he scrutinised Adler."Black hoodie and joggers, let me guess," he raised a brow, "A raid?"Adler stopped turning to find their eyes on him. Rune, mischievously smiling behind Kyra, told Adler he already knew what was happening.To Priest, he ordered, "Forget about bringing Lily back today; I'll take care of it.""Of course you will," Rune crooned, winking at his boss, and seeing the glare, he quickly turned around.Priest climbed out of the ring, jumping dow
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But could he cause chaos right here? In front of her? She loved this job so much that she'd instead turn down a higher-paying one to stick to what he considered the most stressful job._Rather stay two weeks without a raid than do this._Her company reached forward and wiped a tear from her lash to which, in response, she gave him her infamous smile, except this time it was genuine.Adler's finger slowly trailed away from the gun; her sad smile was genuine, so this dude wasn't a threat; he felt relieved; there would be no rough handling in front of her.But now, instead of rage, hot jealousy engulfed him, watching them hold hands.Fine, call him insecure, but it was hard for nobody else to notice what had drawn him to her. But what had drawn him to her? What made him see the halo above her head? It seemed brighter every damn time they tried to taint her name.Her eyes fell on him, and she squinted, looking unsure at first, even arranging her glasses, and seeing he had been caught alr
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_"So this girl, if you find her..." His one-night stand peered into his face as he stared up at the ceiling, tangled in another strange sheet of a brown-haired, blue-eyed girl, "𝒊𝒇 you eventually find her; what next?"What next?He felt her hand on the tattoo on his chest, tracing the L in the LILY. Reflex kicked in, and he snatched her wrist, pushing it back at her side, "Don't go wandering," he muttered, dropping his feet down and going to the bathroom.Ended up on another bed. He ended up saying her name and touching her hair in his dreams.All this, but it wasn't her.Just another girl.With her features."Whoever she is, Don, She'll be terrified of you; anyone would be." He turned towards the girl; although he couldn't fully make her out in the dimness of the room, he could make out her frame pulling back.And he answered, "She's not just anyone."***Then it had been him hoping, but right now, staring at her scrunching her nose at the log book, oblivious to the senior citizens
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[SALVATORE]If he had to be honest, he was avoiding Lily as much as he could, and it seemed she had noticed, for she also gave him his space.Salvatore ran his hand over the bandage Adler had made him wrap around his ankle. He sighed; the Boss was going out of his way to make his lie genuine.That he had been limping around Lily for three days straight was proof of it. Most of the times he met her, she was being brought back from work by Rune, for Adler had been so busy he was rarely at the manor.One could even say everything had returned to normal, Boss Domenico seemed to have forgotten about Lily, and Eva only came out in the evenings; there was no more confrontation.But today, he stood up from the bed, putting on his crucifix and running his fingers through his hair; he was ready to see her again. His apologies were in a brown wrapper, a result of spending hours in the Library.If she forgave him, she might be sharing his private spot again. He slipped his cell phone into his poc
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AUTHOR'S POV [ADLER]Climbing down the car, his first action was to raise his head, scanning the house, precisely her room window.It was a habit he couldn't do without, wanting to find out if she was home, even though he knew he couldn't tell by just looking at the always wide-opened glass.With the back of his palm, he wiped the blood rolling down the side of his head. He needed a hot shower; he smelled of rubber and burning flesh.What could he say? His day had gone rough.He slammed the door shut and went to the booth; pulling out a black bag, he moved straight into the house. And standing at the entrance, he couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong.The last time he had this feeling, his world had gone through a significant change, and not the good kind. It had been a turning point in his life, a moment that shattered his sense of security and innocence. As he stepped into the dimly lit hallway, memories of that fateful day resurfaced, and a shiver ran down his spi
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