Chapter 23. What Are You Doing to Me?

Theodore’s POV

“So, we’ve put some things down that are…”

Those were the last words I could recall before my mind faded away. I got lost—completely lost—and for a moment, I had no idea where I was.

The voices around me became distant, fading into a blur of sound, drowned out by the one thing that had taken up every corner of my thoughts.

Adeline.

It took everything in me this morning not to fall into her trap—not to give in to the temptation she so effortlessly laid before me. But the truth?

I almost did.

In fact, I did give in.

I had no idea how it happened, how I lost control so completely, but before I knew it, I had kissed her. And God help me, I hadn’t wanted to stop.

Three months. It had been three months since we got married. Three months since Iris ran away, disappearing without a single trace.

Not a word, not a sign, nothing. It was as if she had never even existed.

Not that I cared.

But still, t