Mira Reckoning: Love, Lies and Inheritance
He had been home, and I had been gone for twenty-one hours, and he hadn’t thought once to pick up his phone and call.
I swallowed that down, paid the driver, and got out.
I pushed the front door open and stepped inside, and the house was quiet around me. I was barely two steps in when I saw him. Adrian was at the bottom of the staircase, about to head up, still in the clothes from yesterday by the look of it, tired around the edges in a way that told me his night hadn’t been easy either.
Our eyes met. “Mira,” he said.
I forced a small and polite smile, nodded once in his direction, and walked past him toward the stairs without stopping. I kept my steps steady and my face neutral all the way