ADRIAN

The moment she uttered those words, my heart stopped, my body going still for a second before I said, with a grin, “Careful, sweetheart, or I might just marry you right here.”

She replied with a smile.

Only if she knew I meant every single word. I would wed her and make her mine legally, 'cause she has always belonged to me and when she said she wasn't letting me go.

Fuck!!!!!

I had planned all this mostly to watch her do what she always wanted to: to stare at the sky not feeling like a prisoner, but a bird—a free bird.

She dug into her food, her eyes...