Page 26 of Darkest Love
I turn around so he can’t see me and make my way through the security line. Once I’ve done that, I rush to the nearest women’s bathroom and hunker inside. Surely Adrien will not find me in here.
But how in the world did he figure out I was coming here?
Unless… did he have eyes on me? Guards watching my every move? I shudder at the thought.
I have a few hours to kill before my flight so I decide to just wait in the bathroom. I check my phone to see that Adrien has tried calling me multiple times now.
Realistically, I know I’m being mean. Adrien doesn’t want me to die and he does have enemies that might want to hurt me. I’ve been used before by my family’s enemies. I know that I need to be careful.
But I just can’t help but rebel against Adrien for tying me to the bed and telling me what to do and tricking me into saying yes to a marriage when he didn’t give me the full information of who he is.
I wait an entire hour in the bathroom before I risk leaving it. At first, I don’t see anyone… but then I spy Adrien over by one of the gates, looking around. For me. He obviously bought a ticket just to come after me. He knows I’m returning to New York. Where else would I go?
There’s no point in trying to get on the plane. I know he’ll find me.
With a sigh, I walk over to him and when he sees me, his eyes turn dark. But not in the dark way when he looked at me with lust. No, in a purely angry way.
“What the hell are you doing?” he hisses, coming over to me.
“I just wanted to see my family again.”
“You were the one who wanted an adventure. To get away from them.”
“I know. But now I miss them and you’re the one keeping me locked away. You’re the one keeping me from an adventure.”
He grabs my arm. “Let’s go home and talk about this.”
“Talk?” I wrench away from him. “What is there to talk about? You never want to talk. You don’t want to share what you’re feeling. You don’t want to let me in. That’s the problem. Just let me in, Adrien. If you did, I wouldn’t want to get away from you.”
“You’re causing a scene.”
“Then I’ll cause a scene!” I scream, drawing more eyes onto us.
A security guard comes over and asks us if everything is all right.
“Everything is fine,” Adrien tells him. “My wife and I are just having an argument.”
“Are you all right?” the guard asks me.
I could tell him that I need help. That Adrien is keeping me hostage.
But if I do that, I’ll return home to be kept locked away in Mikhail’s house for the rest of my life. It was foolish of me to think I could return home.
I decided to live my life with Adrien. I made my bed and now I need to lie in it.
“Yes,” I say. “Everything is all right. Let’s go.”
Adrien walks right beside me, not giving me any chance to run away if I wanted to, as we leave the airport.
His guard drives us home. It’s tense between me and Adrien in the back seat. Both of us are radiating anger. Why can’t we get on the same page? We’re not even in the same book.
When we return home, Adrien doesn’t even look at me as he heads into his office and slams the door behind him.
But there’s one thing I need to know. I storm into his office. “How did you know where I was? You found me fast.”
“I have cameras installed around the perimeter of the house to keep out my enemies. I caught you leaving. Again. I was curious where you were going so I followed you. Saw you get into some stranger’s car and then saw you get dropped off at the airport.”
“It was an Uber.”
