Adrian's words just made me take a step back and give him a frustrated look. I rolled my eyes tiredly, "Don't joke with me, it's not funny at all, Ad."
"I wasn't joking," he replied casually, not even waiting a moment to think about how his words might affect me.
I chuckled dryly, trying to ignore Adrian's unfunny jokes. If he had said that to me a few months ago, maybe I could still take his words somewhat seriously, but now?
All his words sounded like he was openly mocking me. He seemed to mock me because I wouldn't be able to get that position since Grace arrived, and I had made peace with it for quite some time – or maybe now my problems were much bigger and forgetting about that was out of the question. Yet, Adrian casually brought up one of my biggest sore spots.
"You could ask m
