Chapter 6

Adrian

F*ck, this was going to be hard.

Feeling her skin against my hands.

Her lips slightly parted as they stared up at me in surprise when I held her chin.

I shouldn't have touched her at all.

Now memories of that night I thought I had pushed into a corner of my mind came running back to the front.

"Take care of her college transfer and traces; you know what I mean, right?"

Kael nodded, and I walked towards my car, where I dialed the burner phone number that Elio had used to call me earlier, not bothering till I got home to have some privacy.

"So tell me in detail what happened." I said to Elio when he picked up the call, "What do you mean, risk of getting caught?"

"Is Lyra there?"

"Of course not."

I knew just how much he wanted to keep this life of his away from his daughter, and he sighed in relief.

"Okay."

"So..."

"Someone sent an assassin to me."

"What? Are you okay? Who?"

"Uhm... I don't know, probably the Donovans, as I said earlier in my voicema