#Chapter 84 - The Disk

“Alright,” Adeline sighed in defeat. She practically threw herself down onto one of the couches and let out a long sigh. “We’ve literally checked everywhere—and still no disk.” I allowed myself to collapse into one of the chairs across from her. My head fell back while trying to reevaluate the situation. She and I had pretty much checked every room, as discreetly as possible, for that damn disk Lorenzo was keeping from me. We checked the bedrooms, the study, the library, both of the drawing rooms and the back courtyard. Nothing. I felt defeated. Embarrassed. And insanely crazy. It should have been enough for me to accept that perhaps Lorenzo was telling me the truth and Cruz had been trying to fill my head with nonsense the entire time. But it wasn’t. There was still that irritable feeling that was pulling me to keep on looking. I knew I should’ve let it go, but there was an ongoing feeling in the back of my mind that I was right. “If there was truly nothing going o