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CHAPTER 21: Regular Thing
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2026-10-22 19:00:23Adrian's POV
I pulled my phone from the center console, stepped out into the night air, and dialed my father’s number. He answered on the second ring."Hey, Dad.""Hello, young man," my father’s deep, gravelly voice rasped through the speaker."About the person who broke into my place," I cut straight to the point, pacing near the side of my Range Rover. "What do we have on it so far?"A
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Adrian's POVI had typed it three times.'Come over.'The same two words I had sent her once before, the day of the range. They had been easy then. Now I sat on the edge of the bed with my shirt off and an ice pack pressed to my ribs, looking at them on the screen, and deleted them for the third time.The house was very quiet. I had always liked that about it.I had made it through Professor Arthur's office without anyone noticing. I sat in the chair, nodded at the right places and answered what I was asked, and I could not have told you one thing he said. All I remembered was the stiffness in my neck every time I turned to look at him, and a pair of eyes on the quad that had gone over every bruise I thought I had hidden."Did you see a doctor?"I had said no. I had told her I could manage. It was the truth, if you ignored everything under it. I couldn't go to a doctor. A doctor would ask questions, and a doctor's record would sit somewhere that other people coul
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Scarlett's POVI couldn't stop seeing his knuckles.I got through two lectures without hearing a word of either. Every time the professor turned to the board, I was back on the quad with Adrian's hand sliding into his pocket, and I let him walk away because he hadn't said no and he hadn't said yes.By evening I was sitting on my bed with my knees pulled up and my phone in my hand. Mia was out. The room was quiet enough that I could hear the radiator ticking.'He's an adult,' I told myself. 'He can look after himself.'I typed a message anyway."Did you see a doctor?"I deleted it and typed it again, shorter, and sent it before I could argue myself out of it. Then I put the phone face down on the blanket and stared at the wall.It buzzed in under a minute."No."I picked it up."Adrian.""I can manage on my own."I read it twice. It was
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