Chapter 49 The Truth

• Adrian POV
• I watch her walk away from a second-floor window and I don't move.
• That's the part I'll have to live with. Not the equipment room, not the words I said, not two months of silence and distance and telling myself it was for her own good. This moment, specifically — Jules standing in that courtyard shaking, her voice breaking on my name, and me standing at a window with my hand on the glass and my feet completely still.