EXCEPTION

Adrian’s POV

I looked at Lily, silently eating in front of me. She looked surprised by everything that I was doing, but she never said anything. She just let me do all of this without saying a word. Maybe she thought that he also did this for Mary Ann and that this was normal.

There were times that she glanced at me shyly but looked away when I shifted my gaze to her. I knew that if somebody who knew me saw us here, they'd start to spread rumors again about my new personal assistant and me. But what would be Lily’s reaction? Would she avoid me because she was already married? I was sure that she wouldn't be interested in me because she loved her husband so much.

She was not the kind of woman that would risk her married status for rumors. And I was also not the kind of man who would lure a married woman to me to get what I want. But for Lily, I would make an exception. I went to sip on my champagne glass when I noticed she shook her head.