The Pretty Psycho: A Dark Enemies-to-Lovers Romance (St. Vasili's Academy Book 2) by L.K. Reid

Author:L.K. Reid [Reid, L.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

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ADRIAN

My heart was finally at ease, seeing Vega sitting at the table in the cabin eating the sandwich I'd made her once we got inside. Her cheeks were flushed, touched by the cold as we walked here from the building where Yolanda was staying. She finally wasn't as pale as yesterday and I was more than thankful for that small miracle.

She frowned at something as she ate the last piece of her sandwich, chewing slowly, when those eyes found mine, finally seeing me looking at her from the other end of the table.

"Is there something on my face?" she asked, brushing her fingers around her lips, trying to locate the possible crumbs.

"No," I muttered. "It's just good seeing you in this space." I wanted to tell her so much more, but she wasn't ready to hear how I almost destroyed it all when she went missing. I’d had hours to think about everything she'd told me, and while I knew now that some of it came from a place of fear, the rest was definitely true.

I didn't want to suffocate her, so we would start out slowly.

"Do you want more?" I asked when she just kept staring at me, her eyes narrowed as if she was trying to read me. But there were no secrets I wanted to keep anymore. There was nothing I wanted to hide from her. All she had to do was ask and I'd be happy to tell her everything she wanted to know.

"No," she mumbled. "I think I'm good now." The air was filled with a sense of trepidation that wasn't here before, and I wanted it gone. I didn't want her sitting on the other side of the table, but right next to me. Unfortunately, for all my caveman tendencies, she needed her space. Especially since I was about to dish out all my dirty laundry.

"I was born in Spain," I blurted out before she could say anything else. "I don't remember much about my childhood, but I do remember warm summers and my brother as he chased me around the house we were living in. I'm not sure how big my father's empire was at that point, but as a kid I had a good time. Unfortunately, all good things have to come to an end sometimes and the moment we moved from Spain to London, I saw what my father truly was." A fucking monster, but that was beside the point. "He loved creating these little competitions for Dain and me, and it took me a long time to see that he was pitting us against each other. As years went by, those competitions turned more serious, and the more we got involved with the organization, the more my father smiled every time the two of us would be at each other's necks."

"I'm sorry, Adrian," she murmured. I hated talking about my brother, but she had to hear this.

"Dain wanted more than my father was willing to give him. He was power-hungry, obsessed with his position, and he used people around him as if they were disposable.

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