All Chapters of The Billionaire Bastards and their Innocent Obsession: Chapter 21 - Chapter 22

Chapter 21 Adrian’s POVThe restaurant was too quiet.That kind of silence that cost money — where every clink of glass was swallowed by velvet walls and the hum of secrets.Adrian sat alone at a corner table, his jacket draped neatly over the chair beside him. The waiter had already tried twice to take it away. Twice he’d refused. People like Voss noticed things like that — what a man kept close.He checked his watch. 8:57. Three minutes early.Outside, the city pulsed behind the tinted windows — horns, light, chaos — but in here, everything was control.The maître d’ whispered something near the entrance. Then Voss appeared.A wolf in a silk tie.He didn’t rush, didn’t smile. Just moved — smooth, deliberate — like the air bent to his pace.“Mr. Hale,” Voss greeted, voice calm as water. “You chose an interesting place.”Adrian leaned back, offering nothing but a nod. “The kind of place where people pretend not to listen.”Voss smirked as he sat. “Then we’ll get along just fine.”Th