Chapter 48 : I Need To Tell You Something…

*Adrian’s POV*

“Hello, ‘wife’”, I said as she stepped into the living room and set down the grocery bags full of food.

She rolled her eyes and flipped me the bird, “Don’t stand up to help me all at once. It’s not like I just carried all this shit up three flights of stairs.”

I stood up from my spot on the couch and walked over to help her. Things between us had been a little tense since the WPP placement. We both missed our old lives and to say we hadn’t had to adjust would be a lie. Amelia had been emotional, and I resorted to anger and rudeness whenever I was uncomfortable.

It’d be perfectly acceptable for Amelia to kick me in the nuts for how I’d treated her. Not only since we’d moved here, but before that, during what had happened with MID, as well. My life had slowed down exponentially, and it allowed me to look back on my life and come to some new realizations.

We silently unpacked the groceries Amelia had picked up, and I thought about everything I wanted to tell he