Nathan:
“Can we just focus on eating?” I muttered for what felt like the hundredth time. Not that anyone was actually listening to me.
Madison chuckled. “Relax, Nathan. It’s just breakfast. Besides, Cole and Adele are just talking. You could join in if you wanted.”
I frowned.
It had been a week since I took Adele to visit her mother in the hospital, and ever since that day, she’d been… distant. She barely spoke to me, barely even looked at me. Going out together? Forget it.
A nagging part of me wondered if she wasn’t happy with me anymore… or worse, if she’d figured out what happened between Eve and me.
I knew I shouldn’t give a damn. Not that it should matter to her, either. It was just a contract.
Still, I couldn’t shake the guilt creeping in. If the roles were reversed, I knew I
