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6: WHAT ARE YOU ADRIAN, AN IDIOT?

Author: Indigo Naz
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-11 08:06:27
FIVE YEARS AGO

ADRIAN

I sat sprawled on the couch in the den, phone in hand, staring at the screen like it might magically tell me what to do.

I’d typed a message to Lolette, then deleted it. Typed another, then deleted that one too.

My thumb hovered over the keyboard, and I pressed a hand to my mouth, wondering what in the hell I was even doing.

ADRIAN: Are you free for a phone call?

No.

That was wrong. I’d never asked her if I could call her before. That wasn’t how we were. Our relationship had always been casual, easy. Ever since she was adopted by the Eastwoods five years ago, we’d built the kind of friendship I never imagined I could have with anyone but my brothers.

We’d grown so close over the years. But last night... we’d crossed a line.

And now I was dealing with those consequences.

Consequences I wasn’t necessarily complaining about.

There was a strange, queasy twist in my chest, something I didn’t usually feel around women—or people ever really.

Then again, Lol
Indigo Naz

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    ADRIAN.She turned into me without any hesitation. Her arms wrapped tight around my waist and she buried her face against my chest while she cried like something inside her had finally broken open.I held her and wished desperately that I could fix this. That I could promise her everything would be okay. That I could do anything except sit here while she fell apart."I should have told you about them," she said against my shirt. "When I found out I was pregnant. I should have tried harder to reach you.""You did try.""But I should have tried again." She pulled back enough to look up at me. Her face was blotchy and wet with tears. "Maybe if you'd known about them from the beginning, they'd be safe right now. Maybe if we'd been doing this together all along—""This isn't your fault.""But what if it is?" Her voice climbed higher. "What if I kept them from you and now someone's using them to get to you and it's all my fault because I was too stubborn and hurt and angry to—""Stop." I cu

  • BROKEN BILLIONAIRES   35: HOTEL CONFESSIONS

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  • BROKEN BILLIONAIRES   34: THE MAN WHO I STILL LOVE

    LOLETTE."Okay." Evlor's voice cut through the thick fog that had settled over my brain. "I think we really need to get you back to your hotel now."I blinked at her. The bar had gone all soft and blurry around the edges. Everything was simultaneously too bright and too dark at the same time."I'm fine," I said, but the words came out thick and clumsy in my mouth."You're really not fine at all." She was already on her feet and pulling out her wallet. "Come on. Let me get you back to your room."She helped pull me up to my feet. The entire world tilted sideways. I grabbed onto her arm hard to keep myself steady."Lolette?"A man's voice. I recognized it but couldn't quite place it. I turned around too fast and nearly lost my balance completely.Who...?Oh.Tor Huntzburger was standing a few feet away from us with concern written all across his face."Are you alright?" he asked, taking a step closer."She's fine," Evlor said quickly, tightening her grip on my arm. "We're just leaving."

  • BROKEN BILLIONAIRES   33: SURVIVING THE LOSS OF HIM

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  • BROKEN BILLIONAIRES   32: LET'S DRINK TO IT

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  • BROKEN BILLIONAIRES   31: OVER EVERYTHING ELSE

    ADRIAN The words were delivered so calmly. So matter-of-factly. Like he was turning down a lunch invitation instead of condemning my father to death. “You’re joking.” “I assure you I’m not.” He picked up his pen again and went back to his paperwork. “Mabel wants to marry into your family. You want to save your father’s life. It seems like a mutually beneficial arrangement to me.” “Mabel is—” I stopped myself. Tried to find words that wouldn’t make this worse. “She’s not someone I could ever marry.” “Why not? She’s beautiful. Well-educated. From a good family.” “She’s cruel.” The word came out hard. “She treats Lolette like garbage. Goes out of her way to make her miserable.” Something shifted in Theodore’s expression. “Ah yes. Lolette. My charitable project.” The way he said her name made my skin crawl. “She’s not a project. She’s a person.” “She’s an orphan I took in out of the goodness of my heart.” He set down his pen again and looked at me directly. “A troubled girl

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