My Ex, My Ruin
“If I stay, Morgan wins. And everything your father, my father, Clara, all of it becomes meaningless. The only way to honor them is to finish this.
I wanted to beg him not to go. But I couldn't. Because he was right.
Someone had to infiltrate Apex. And Adrien, broken, guilt-ridden, self-destructive Adrien was the only one who could.
That night, we tried.
Tried to be close. Tried to reclaim some of the intimacy we'd lost.
But when he touched me, I saw flashes of Clara's body.
And when I touched him, he tensed. Like he couldn't bear to be seen. To be loved. To be anything other than a weapon pointed at Morgan.
"I'm sorry," he whispered in the darkness. "I'm sorry, I'm broken."
"We're both brok