Chapter 13 - Adrian Asked Me to Stay—Not as His Employee, but as the Woman His Daughter Had Already Chosen as FamilyAfter everything ended, I expected Adrian to disappear from my life.
Instead, he came to my apartment.
Emma was asleep in his arms.
He looked nervous.
“Can I ask you something?”
“Yes.”
“Would you stay?”
I laughed softly.
“Where?”
“With us.”
I looked at Emma.
“She already loves you.”
I swallowed.
“I love her too.”
Adrian smiled.
“And me?”
I looked at him.
“You're still working on that.”
He laughed.
“Fair.”
But I stayed.
Not because he was powerful.
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Not because he was wealthy.
Because somewhere between a dumpster and a hospital, we had become family.
