Chapter 111 — Adrian Breaks

(Adrian)Sienna told me at seven in the evening.She didn't build toward it. She sat across from me at the kitchen table with her hands around her cup and said Maya had called and told me what Maya had found and then she stopped talking and let it sit.I heard it.All of it.The Meridian connection, the registered agent, the operating name that matched the man I'd called twice in my life and trusted both times without fully examining why.I heard it and I didn't say anything for a long time.The kitchen was quiet. Outside the window the street was doing its ordinary things, cars moving, a door closing somewhere below, the distant sound of the city that didn't adjust itself to the scale of what was happening in this room."Adrian," Sienna said."I know," I said.She waited.I stood and moved to the window because sitting still had become something I couldn't manage. I looked at the street without seeing it and went back through the decisions I'd made.The first time I'd called Harbinge

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Chapter 112 – Soothing

(Sienna) Adrian's hand trembled as it reached for mine.None of the iron control I'd come to expect, the steady grip that brooked no argument, but a subtle shake in his fingers. The room was dim, just the desk lamp casting long shadows across the scattered reports confirming Harbinger's betrayal. He didn't speak. Didn't need to. The weight of it hung in the air between us, thick as the silence after a detonation. I laced my fingers through his, feeling the calluses rough against my palm."Come here," I whispered, tugging gently until he stepped into me, his forehead dropping to my shoulder. His breath was uneven, warm puffs against my neck carrying the faint salt of unshed emotion, body heavy with exhaustion. The kind that hollowed you out after some home truths carved too deep. I guided him back toward the low couch in the corner, the leather cool under my thighs as we sank down together. No urgency in his touch this time, no demand. Just need: raw, quiet, anchoring.His arms wra

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Chapter 111 — Adrian Breaks

Chapter 112 – Soothing