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Briar’s confidence in Mhane was a surprise. However, it made Noah feel slightly better to know that she had her slightly probably insane sister guarding her.

Adrienne

“He’s here again,” Mhane huffed with exasperation as she stormed into the room with her arms crossed.

“I don’t want to see him,” Adrienne mumbled from under the cocoon of her covers.

It felt like she had been hiding there for ages, and it wasn’t enough. Everything had been ripped from her and for what? So she could play bedmate for Noah. She had no apartment, no future planned, all her stuff was at Moon.

“It’s been weeks,” Mhane snapped.

Had it really?

Adrienne discreetly sniffed at herself. Hell! She needed a shower.

“Are you listening to me?” Mhane snipped at her.

Adrienne had discovered that Mhane was a bit short-tempered. It didn’t matter as long as Mhane let her stay there and stopped pestering her to get up.

“I’m listening,” she muttered miserably.

“Get rid of him. I have to go out soon.” Mhane snapped bad-tempered. “Don’t worry about him being discovered by HFH and getting hurt because he has a damn security team with him.”

Adrienne wasn’t worried about that. She was more concerned about where it was Mhane was going all the time, and why she came back groaning. Anytime she tried approaching it Mhane threatened to open the door and let Noah kidnap her. It shut Adrienne up fast.

“I’m going. I’m going,” Adrienne grumbled. She stood and glanced down at her three-day-old shorts and her large grey top. She wasn’t wearing underwear or clean clothes. What was the point when her new occupation was crying into sheets that weren’t hers?

She probably looked like a reject, but she honestly didn’t care.

She walked to the door with more courage than she felt and paused in front of it as her nerves failed her. It was almost as if she could feel his heat through the door and her heart shattered at the betrayal and the way he used her.

Her hand hovered over the doorknob.

Mhane nodded, encouraging her to open it up.

Instead, Adrienne cleared her throat and shouted, though it came out more like a strained whisper, “Go away, Noah.” Her voice was crackly and dry from all the crying.

“No,” he growled, and damn her for getting excited about hearing his voice. It had been too long.

“We need to talk,” he demanded, and her ire rose.

What an arsehole. He had weeks…in fact, over a month to talk about it. How could he demand to be heard now after hurting her?

Mhane was waving her hands frantically. Adrienne frowned at her. Mhane made shooing motions as if to tell her to talk to him.

Adrienne took a deep breath and leaned her head against the door. “What would have happened when you decided you had enough of me?” She knew he could hear her perfectly fine through the door and she couldn’t stand to see his facial expressions when she asked that.

“I don’t know,” he replied. That wasn’t good enough. Not by far. How could he turn up there with an ‘I don’t know.’ “It would never…”

“And when I left Moon. Would I be free to come back as soon as you were done with me, or would I be kicked out? What about my home and my job? Was it all a joke to you?”

Her heart in pieces and fury rising, she imagined shoving him with a closed fist or trying to shake something intelligent out of him.

“What was supposed to happen to me?” Adrienne rasped.

“I don’t know. I don’t know!” Noah shouted.

Adrienne’s heart stuttered as the truth fell from his lips and a small piece of her flinched. She had put her trust in him, gave him part of her heart and he didn’t even think about what would happen to her.

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