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Author: Hassy_101
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Detroit ~

Places like this didn't please him but he came here anyway, to please Adele. Or was it?

Sitting across from her, watching her eat her meal quietly, the corner of his mouth curled. It had become his new hobby to see her blush, happy, outspoken, and be herself. And he needed her like this. Open. Relaxed. Happy. Just for a little while longer.

Because once she realized just how many eyes were on her, how many traps were closing in on her, she wouldn't smile like this again for a long time.

Just like Elias warned him and like he already knew, bringing Adele into his world had put her in danger. And not the kind of danger Detroit could brush off.

And the kind of danger she was in now wasn’t because she stepped into his world. It was because his world stepped into hers.

There were more than three groups watching her from different angles.

The night they made up, he’d sighted bugs planted outside her apartment window but pretended he didn't see them and acted out a b
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