Haunting-Adeline

Chapter 26
The Manipulator
’m seething, and my thighs are slick with my own arousal as I rush a er
Zade. I
He doesn’t bother turning the movie off. We just slip from the room
and quickly make our way back into the ballroom.
It’s like no one even no ced us gone. But I’m sure people have, right?
Zade has worked this en re room by now, and as much as I loathe to admit
it, the man is unforge able.
To say the fucking least.
All of two minutes pass before a man approaches us, his black uniform
and white vest signaling his posi on.
“Mr. Forthright, Ms. Reilly, please follow me,” the butler, Marion,
instructs.
Just like that, I’m stone-cold sober and the lingering orgasm has been
completely eradicated.
Marion leads us through a series of hallways, poin ng out certain
pictures and historical ar facts Mark managed to get his hands on.
I nod and hum my appraisal, but my mind is dri ing back towards Gigi
and the poten al informa on I could garner tonight. Mark might choose to
give me breadcrumbs and keep me coming back for more, but it'll be fu le.
He’s not ge ng me back in this house again. I'm not en rely sure if
coming here was even worth it yet or not.
At least I got to watch an unreleased movie, even though I didn’t get to
see how it ended.
Whatever, I don’t remember much about it anyways. My gaze was
sightless when all I could focus on was—
Stop it, Addie.
My stomach drops from the fresh memory, and it takes entering Mark’s
study to pull my a en on firmly back into the present.