Chapter 27

[LILY'S POV.]

"...I won't act like I'm not pleased, you know," Salvatore confessed as he drove the car towards my workplace.

I narrowed my eyes at him, and he smiled sheepishly. 

He was driving me to work, my bag on my lap, and my hands still fidgety from the last time I and Adler spoke.

"Come on, Lily, don't act like it wasn't for the best. Yes, Adler might have presented it unconventionally, which is soo him," he shrugged, "But I'm sure it is for the best."

Unconventional was an understatement to his presentation. Correctly, it should be aggressive, and he still managed to send it across poorly.

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"Sit down." Adler had ordered two days ago as I stood in his room, making me wonder, why his bedroom? Didn't they have an office for this sort of thing?

I noticed a video projector sitting just at the edge of the large, black spread-covered bed as I entered the room. The curtains were grey, and I noticed he had rushed to throw a gun into a