Adrian’s POVBy the time I got Leo out of the hospital and into the car, I was already thinking two steps ahead of everyone else and still not far enough.The city had become too loud, too exposed, too full of people who looked at our faces and saw headlines instead of human beings. Every time a car slowed too long behind us, every time a stranger glanced at the security detail around the vehicle, every time a phone rang in the wrong tone, I felt my stomach tighten. Leo needed somewhere quieter. Somewhere that did not constantly feel like the next thing waiting to go wrong.So I moved them.The estate in the countryside had been one of the few places I trusted to hold if things got ugly again. It sat behind a long private drive, with its own walls, its own security system, its own staff who had been screened so thoroughly I probably knew more about their background than they did. Fortified, secluded, and far enough away from the city that even the noise of it felt like a memory instea
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