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Chapter 41

Author: Jessica wilson
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-20 22:06:25

Adrian's Pov

I noticed it before the words came. The shift in energy. Something had changed. It wasn’t just the way she lingered longer than usual near the guest room or how she seemed to take a longer shower, emerging with eyes rimmed in red, claiming it was the heat. It was in the way she avoided eye contact when I came close. For days now, her phone was always upside down now, her hand unconsciously hovering nearby.

I knew something was wrong. But I didn’t expect it to be Oliver who would tell me. He found me in the study, sprawled across my desk, eyes burning from the long hours. I was still halfway through organizing statements for PR, cross-checking media coverage and balancing firestorms from every corner of the business world.

He walked in limping quietly, dragging his favorite comic under one arm. He was healing fast. He didn’t speak at first, just stood there, watching me like he was reading something beneath the skin.

“Valentine is a lot to handle.” he said immediately he g
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