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CHAPTER 12: Whispers Beneath the Leather Sky
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2025-06-13 03:00:31Alaina
I froze the moment I saw him. There he stood—Adrian. Towering in the entryway of the hotel. The cheap linoleum floors beneath his polished shoes seemed unworthy. He looked like a storm that had no business blowing into a place like this, wild, powerful, and somehow still unnervingly controlled. "Well," I whispered to myself, feeling a strange twist of bitter satisfaction as I wiped my hands on the hem of my dress, "I was right after all." Adrian's gaze swept over me, unreadable, sharp as shattered glass. His jaw clenched, but his lips tilted into a cold smile. "So this is what victory looks like to you," he said, the disdain in his voice too subtle to be called cruelty, but too pointed to ignore. My heart beat faster. I wanted to look away, but I couldn’t. The way he said it, like I’d won some unspoken war neither of us had agreed to fight, made my spine straighten. "You l
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