Adrian's POVShe was where she said she was.Standing against the wall of a narrow street off Knightsbridge with her phone in her hand and her shoulders back and the specific posture of someone who had decided to hold themselves together and was succeeding through considerable effort. I had covered the distance from the manor in eleven minutes and forty seconds because I had not driven within the speed limit for a single one of them and Darius, who was in the passenger seat, had said nothing about this, which was the correct decision.I got out of the car.She looked at me.I looked at her.Her hands had stopped shaking by the time I reached her, or she had stopped letting them shake, and I did not ask which because the answer did not change what needed to happen next.I said, "Are you hurt?""No," she said."Did he touch you?""No.""Did he threaten you directly?""Not directly," she said. "He is too careful for direct."I nodded. I said, "There is a cafe on the next street. Come."
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