All Chapters of The Lie I Signed With The Mafia Ceo: Chapter 21 - Chapter 23

Adeline's POV---Five in the morning. Which officially makes sleeping someone else's problem.My thesis is still sitting on the kitchen table. Not because I'm studying anymore. That part ended around four. There's only so many times you can reread the same paragraph before the words stop looking like English and start looking like Spanish.I know this thesis. I know where every citation is, which chapter fought me the hardest and exactly which sentence Professor Okonkwo is probably going to question because I argued with myself over it for three straight days before finally admitting the fifth version was the right one.The thesis isn't what's keeping me awake.Clara texted just after midnight. ‘You're going to destroy it tomorrow. Also I found the cutest café near campus. We're celebrating after.’ I sent back a heart and put my phone face-down.Mom called around eleven. She said Dad would've been proud. That one stayed with me.I glance at the clock.Five fifteen.Well. If sleep isn

Adeline's POV ---My alarm isn't set until seven. I'm awake by 5:47 anyway. The apartment is quiet in that specific way it gets before the city remembers it exists. My laptop is already open on the bed. The hot tea on my nightstand has gone cold because I made it twenty minutes ago and forgot it was there. I'm starting to think I make hot drinks just to watch them become cold ones.I know what I've decided.Big decisions have terrible timing. They don't arrive during inspirational speeches or dramatic rainstorms. They show up before sunrise when your tea has gone cold and you've been staring at the same spreadsheet long enough to question every life choice that brought you here.I close the tab with Jack Whitmore's funding proposal. My cursor hovers over Delete, I don't press it. Deleting it would make this feel permanent. Closing it just means I'm choosing something else today. So I open a new document and start writing down everything else.—Miguel and Ethan are already at the cof