Chapter 68 Sixty eight

DANIELLE'S P.O.V.

I ended the call.

I said what I had to and pressed the red button, displayed alongside a green button on the phone's screen, to end the video call, but not before revelling in the shocked expression that had been painted so clearly on Adrian's face. I guessed he had not expected for me to call him out with just two words.

For the upteenth time, at that moment, I felt the nearly overwhelming urge to plant a stinging slap across my own face, although I also wished I could plant a much more damaging slap across one of Adrian's cheek- maybe even both of them.

How could I have made the mistake of getting carried away?

When my heart had started to flutter, and butterflies had started to fly in my belly, and my cheeks had started to grow hot and red; when all of these things had started to happen, why hadn't I cautioned myself?

Why hadn't I berated and cautioned my heart when it started to feel things that it had no business feeling?

Why hadn't I given myself a severe pep t