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Chapter 68: Adrian Sees the Shift
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2026-07-04 14:25:12
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Married For Revenge, Pregnant With His Regret Chapter 68: Adrian Sees the Shift
He didn't say anything. He just poured me a drink and sat across from me and waited.Adrian had stayed in New York for four days after the press conference. Not because he had planned to, his diary had him back in London by Friday evening, but because the kind of person he was did not leave in the middle of something when leaving felt like a choice made for comfort rather than necessity. He had rescheduled his London meetings. He had not mentioned this to me directly, I had found out from Daniel, who had mentioned it in the casual, informational way of someone passing on a fact they assumed I already knew.I had not already known.I had thought about what it meant for approximately thirty seconds and then thought about seventeen other things and filed it in the place where I kept things that required attention I did not currently have available.He called on Friday evening, the day after the photograph, the day after Chapter 67 had happened in my office and I had told Charlie I would
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