Kapitel 29: Exposed

Adam looked at the little lady sitting on the single sofa chair in the room. Looking at her worried expression, he couldn't help but feel bad.

"Pack your stuff." He broke the silence.

"W-What?" Stella was confused by his statement.

"I said, pack up your stuff. You are leaving with me, you can not stay here. What if the person comes back?" He said sitting on her bed, as if he owned the place.

"You have a point. I will file a complaint to the person in charge of the building later on, till then I will stay at a hotel." She said standing up.

"What hotel? You will stay at my place until the matter is resolved." Adam said as if it was not a big deal.

Stella almost lost her balance listening to him. She turned around, looking at him with her eyes widened. "W-What?" She asked him.

"You will be staying with me until the matter is resolved." He patiently replied to her.

"No way! I am so not doing that. I will stay in a hotel." She replied.

"If you want to stay at a hotel, then alright, you can stay at one. But I will be staying at the hotel as well." He said, standing firmly on his ground. There was no way he would let her live alone until he gets to the bottom of the matter.

Stella was looking at him with a horrified expression.

"Stella! Hear me out for once please." He said getting up and closing the distance between them. "Whoever did this didn't take anything. They just caused havoc here. They just messed up the place. What if they actually came for you in the first place? But you weren't here so they did all of this." He continued looking at her intently.

"What if they try to come back and finish whatever they started?" He looked at her, his gaze full of feelings. 'I have lost my family already, I can't lose you as well.' He thought about the latter to himself.

"But Adam, me staying at your place, it isn't okay." She tried to reason with him.

"I know. But trust me Stella, I wouldn't have suggested this if there was some other way." He explained to her. "Please. It's only for a couple of days." Adam gave her a pitiful look.

"Umm… alright. I will get on with the packing now." Stella had no other choice but to agree with the mulish guy before her.

"I will wait for you in the living room." He said heading outside.

After twenty minutes Stella came with a trolley bag in tow and a big hand bag in the other one.

Adam took them from her, more specifically, he snatched them. Adam headed out with Stella following him closely.

Adam put her things in the trunk of his car and settled in the driver's seat. He drove the car in the direction of his house.

Stella leaned back in the car seat, tired from the day's events, her eyelids dropped down.

After a while, she opened her eyes with a startle because of her vibrating phone. She picked it up and noticed the time. She realized that she had slept for half an hour. Looking out the window she found that they were still on the road.

"You can sleep a bit more. It will take another half hour to reach there." Adam said as he noticed the person next to him moving, his eyes still looking forward at the road ahead.

"Why is it taking so long?" Stella couldn't help but ask him, trying to suppress a yawn threatening to escape her mouth.

"Well, what do you expect? I live in the outskirts of the main city.

Stella's eyes widened at his answer. Her mind drifted back to their conversation when he had dropped her off the first time.

Feeling her gaze, Adam turned his face towards her, "What?"

"So you live in the C district?" Stella asked him.

"Yeah!" He answered her briskly.

"Do you have any other properties?" She asked, narrowing her eyes in the process.

"Not in Berlin." He replied, still looking ahead. "Why do you ask?"

"Curiosity." She gave him a one word reply, dropping off the topic for later.

Adam nodded his head, not doubting her intentions.

Stella continued to stare at him for a while before looking outside through the windshield of the car. She was lost in her thoughts trying to figure out why Adam had lied to her about his address.

'Why would he lie to me on such a tiny matter?' She couldn't help but think of a reason for his lying. Why would the Adam Levinson, whom the entire business world of Germany praised, lie just to drop her off home? She turned her head slightly to look at him again, her soul trembling slightly, trying to figure out why.