POV: ADELINE - Cruel Intentions

ADELINE

For the first time in Brooks Sinclair’s life, he looks genuinely speechless.

The silence that follows my outburst stretches between us like a physical wire, taut and ready to snap. I can’t even blame him for his shock. Honestly, I am just as surprised by my own voice as he is. The words feel like they belonged to someone else entirely—someone stronger, someone who hadn’t spent the last d