Chapter 10. What Was It?

Theodore’s POV

The last twenty-four hours had been nothing short of torment.

Restless nights. Sleepless hours. I couldn’t even close my eyes to sleep.

Actually I did, I tried but it didn’t work.

My mind had become a battlefield of thoughts I couldn’t control, and my body. Oh fuck! my body itched for one thing.

For just one person.

Adeline.

There was something about her, something I couldn’t put into words. I had no name for it, no logical explanation.

Just one night—one fucking night with her—and she had refused to leave my head.

Why?

Why was she haunting me like this?

Was it because I was the first man to have her?

Was that it?

I raked my fingers through my hair, pacing the length of my room. I asked myself a thousand questions, but none of them came with answers.

Revenge was meant to be simple.

No strings. No emotions. Just cold, calculated vengeance.

That was what I had told mys