che as he rubbed his palm through his
d in the private bedro
e had spent the past two days since Arabella left
he door. "The fraud case meeting is early to
tting up. "I'll ha
ven though he'd barely done any st
n a fog as he couldn't tell
e misse
dea, dismissing it
e realized the last thing he was staring at befo
" He g
und himself staring at the pi
d taken of her on her
ght catching in her hair, joy radiating from her face...a sm
e how much of her brightness had dimm
in the light from her eyes...what he did to tighten her
haling sharply as he forced himself not to think
n. In fact he did everything ju
was gone, why did
s the large window overlookin
mbled partially to himself and partially to
, jolting him back as he quickly wip
om Serena among severa
e office tomorrow. I have an important c
fication bar, but somethi
email from an u
attention and he e
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s he realized his father might have in
ked his
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e walked out of the bedroom to
couldn't stop himself from
e safe?" his mind co
ain, 8:47pm. Less than four
car key, giving into his c
e to fill a few paperworks and a small fe
n," The vault operator said as she walke
taking a few second
er had strained ever since the
pointment. A sick perv who
thought it was just damage control. After al
his Dad's eyes since t
was dead. Adri
ure. And maybe
, he opened
e vault. It'd been years, but they lo
around the edges of the
are th
oing to find, but he braced
s numb legs, his back relaxing on th
t tears were already
d documents on a secret case
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hushed conversation that made his mom believe Arabella had been sche
st trying to f
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Adrian's ey
ee months before the one night stand? Before hi
h hesitation, he picked
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ou're not sick. I'd say you're brave even. Loving someone 'forbidden' is never easy. I'm sorry
worthy enough to open up to. You used to tel
file. It might lead to a dead end, but that innocent g
ehind this case might be more
her at all costs, but drop t
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each line hitting with the slow, sick
lief-proof that he wasn't a
aw, twisting ache that settled un
vered it up by calling her a gold digger. And now even tore a
st told him he wasn't
d suffocating. He'd let
elf. To get Arabella back. To create their happ
d his phone and dia
g once
ut his resolve was firm. "I don't
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