Adaline Book Novels & Stories

Adaline possesses more authority than most alpha males and can even command them, a skill attributed to her lineage. “It’s okay,” I mumbled, even though I hadn’t heard a word the presenter said. Everyone was dismissed from the meeting, but I remained with Adaline. She handed me a strong glass of whiskey, which I gulped down. “What’s on your mind?” she asked, knowing me all too well. She handed me another glass. “Did you see your handsome enemy again?” she purred, and I grimaced at the thought of him. I’d never abhorred anyone as much as I hated that man, and I promised myself I would make his life as miserable as mine.

I need to be comfortable if I am going to collapse. I pick up a new book to read, it is titled Haunting Adeline and it is a dark romance. I start reading the book to pass the time and about twenty minutes later, “Luna, you were right. Austiin and Cyrus followed him home and when he knocked on the door, a blonde girl opened the door and let him in,” Harlan tells me through our connection.

His handwriting was precise, almost sterile. Alina read the first line—‘I don’t know why I did the things I did.’—and stopped. She folded the paper once, then tore it in half. “I don’t need his reasons,” she said quietly. Elise smiled faintly. “That’s what I was hoping you’d say.” That evening, Alina walked down to the waterfront. The air smelled of salt and spring rain. The city lights shimmered on the water’s surface, bending and breaking with every ripple.