Chapter 200

  My consciousness began to stir and my lids reluctantly fluttered open, catching the florescent glow close to the dressing mirror located in front of my bed.

  Seeing Adler seated silently in the dark, facing the mirror and cleaning a gun with the aid small torch, the scale left my eyes and I sat up letting the covers drop to my waist.

  Since the confetti bomb attack three days ago, he had been a shadow of himself, gazing into space when he was with, and when he embraced he did it like it was going to be the last time he would see me.

  Also he refused telling what exactly had occured that night, when he did, it was to loosely explain that he had overreacted. Which I knew he hadn't. Kyra refused telling me a thing and Adler made sure Rune was nowhere close to me to spill the truth.

  But I noticed that the soldiers that roamed the Manor's compound had doubled and when Adler wasn't around for the night a couple of them stood by m