Chapter 49

Adelia's Point of View

Sleep danced around me for most of the night. Tugged me into its allure, just to spit me back out. And round and round it went.

But this time, it was Siya or Felix plaguing my mind like they normally would. No. This time, a certain blonde-haired and blue-eyed Director stirred me awake the entire night. Shook me from my sleep with a wistful smile and stoic tone.

Turning over every word we had spoken to each other, I came up empty-handed as to why he had left so suddenly last night. Why he had looked so utterly terrified of me for a moment.

A deer caught in headlights.

I had joked, obviously, when I asked it he was asking me out on a first date. The thought of going on one and pretending we were... normal didn't sit well with me.

Honestly, I had thought that he might laugh as well. Fall into my couch the same way he had done the night before when he came to my private living room.

But no. He had run like a bat out of hell. And I couldn't decide why he had done it