The Boy Who Brought Him Back — Episode 10

For the first time, that lazy, joking tone of his was gone, replaced by something cold. Commanding. In that instant, I saw him clearly for what he was, just another rich man who couldn't care less about anyone else. I was glad I'd stopped loving him a long time ago.

Once, in a humiliating stretch of my life, I'd ported my entire adolescence into Adrian Hayes. Then one day, he'd smiled lazily and said, Emma, you don't actually think I have feelings for you, do you? Yes.

I was young back then, painfully shy, the fat girl his popular friends loved to mock. But I wasn't about to let him win. So I looked straight into those unfairly handsome eyes of his and said, Don't flatter yourself.

As far as I'm concerned, you've got nothing going for you besides money and a He raised an eyebrow. Didn't call my bluff. Let's hope that's true.

In the end, I actually started living by that line. Adrian might have lacked a lot of things. Money was never one of them.