Hurt

"Where have you been? It's been two days and I couldn't even reach you on the phone," Adera asked the minute he stepped into the house.

"Busy."

He proceeded upstairs to take a shower. Adera was surprised at the curt response, but she waved it off as stress. Zade had never been rude in his responses to her so he was probably in a bad mood and needed space.

She opted to fix him something to eat instead of bugging him with questions. He would tell her everything eventually.

She had a lot to tell him as well. In just forty-eight hours, a lot of things had gone wrong. First, Roselia had summoned a secret meeting with the shareholders of Parallax and then there were lawsuits against her father for confiscation of private properties and murder.

She suspected everything was somehow connected to Roselia but she didn't have proof. The woman was quite smart. While they were busy preparing for her to take the will to court, she'd opted for more strategic targets.

Consequently, if she couldn'
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