che as he rubbed his palm through his

d in the private bedro

e had spent the past two days since Arabella left

he door. "The fraud case meeting is early to

tting up. "I'll ha

ven though he'd barely done any st

n a fog as he couldn't tell

e misse

dea, dismissing it

e realized the last thing he was staring at befo

" He g

und himself staring at the pi

d taken of her on her

ght catching in her hair, joy radiating from her face...a sm

e how much of her brightness had dimm

in the light from her eyes...what he did to tighten her

haling sharply as he forced himself not to think

n. In fact he did everything ju

was gone, why did

s the large window overlookin

mbled partially to himself and partially to

, jolting him back as he quickly wip

om Serena among severa

e office tomorrow. I have an important c

fication bar, but somethi

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attention and he e

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n because he'd never used th

his wasn't thei

lized the message was forwarde

s he realized his father might have in

ked his

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e walked out of the bedroom to

couldn't stop himself from

e safe?" his mind co

ain, 8:47pm. Less than four

car key, giving into his c

e to fill a few paperworks and a small fe

n," The vault operator said as she walke

taking a few second

er had strained ever since the

pointment. A sick perv who

thought it was just damage control. After al

his Dad's eyes since t

was dead. Adri

ure. And maybe

, he opened

e vault. It'd been years, but they lo

around the edges of the

are th

oing to find, but he braced

s numb legs, his back relaxing on th

t tears were already

d documents on a secret case

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dded wildly i

hushed conversation that made his mom believe Arabella had been sche

st trying to f

ge, it was Arabella's adop

Adrian's ey

ee months before the one night stand? Before hi

h hesitation, he picked

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line, a lone tear tri

th. But why? Could it not be a simple accident as

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ou're not sick. I'd say you're brave even. Loving someone 'forbidden' is never easy. I'm sorry

worthy enough to open up to. You used to tel

file. It might lead to a dead end, but that innocent g

ehind this case might be more

her at all costs, but drop t

u will always be m

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each line hitting with the slow, sick

lief-proof that he wasn't a

aw, twisting ache that settled un

vered it up by calling her a gold digger. And now even tore a

st told him he wasn't

d suffocating. He'd let

elf. To get Arabella back. To create their happ

d his phone and dia

g once

ut his resolve was firm. "I don't