Chapter 125

The new week had waltzed in before anyone could notice. But unlike the past weeks, the beginning of this one was anything but pleasant. Gadreel, seated behind the desk in his office, had received the file from his PI, the security footage from a street camera outside Florida’s house. He felt somewhat happy, accomplished perhaps, as he looked at the file, subtly imagining how content Ivory would look when he hands the file over to her. In the past, that look of happiness on her face, would have brought about inexplicable feelings in his chest, but now, imagining it only made him want to see it more. As he copied the footage into a flash drive and waited for it to copy, he glanced at his side and his eyes landed on the little present he had picked up this morning. A batch of sweetened chocolate candy and a single red rose. Perhaps the red rose was going over board, but Gadreel didn’t care. He dimmed it fit, seeing it as a perfect prop for the apology he was going to make when he saw Ivor