From The Dark | Peter Parker x OC ✔️

Chapter Ninety-Seven

A/N: I FUCKING LOVE YOU GUYS

like all the comments you left on the last chapter (especially where tony called adie his daughter, which was something i added as an afterthought lol) made me sMILE SO BIG YOU HAVE NO IDEA. yall literally made my DAY. thank you so much and im so so so grateful for everyone who reads this story 🥺 and i still can't believe this was #2 in iron man yesterday!! that's so woah

so i know the last chapter was a bit dramatic but this one is pretty mellow and it's sort of a filler, but don't worry, it's all leading up to chapter 100!!

happy reading!

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"Soon, my Adelaide will come back to me.

She is going to willingly walk back to me.

And then nothing can stop us."
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Neither guard nor the doctor were able to understand why their boss was so happy at the sight of the brain scans.

Especially the doctor. When he had seen them for himself initially, he had been afraid of what Lukov might say when he gave it to him. After all, the results weren't quite what he had expected them to be. The doctor had expected him to be furious. However, the case seemed to be just the opposite. And even he couldn't understand why.

"As you wish," the guard said obediently, nodding his head.

He glanced at the doctor unsurely before marching past him to fire up the chopper like he had been asked to. After he left the room, Lukov handed the brain scans back to the doctor. There was still an unexplainable maniacal grin on his face that sent a shiver of fear down the doctor's spine. Anything could happen. This man was beyond unpredictable.

Lukov grinned to himself. His gaze was distant, as if searching the future.

"Soon. Soon, my Adelaide will come back to me," he said to himself, "She is going to willingly walk right back to me."

"And then nothing can stop us."

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Tony wanted to kill.

He wanted to kill the man who did this to Adie. He wanted nothing more than to storm through this building, find him, and smash his face into bits so small that no one could recognize him. He wanted to slam him into a wall, beat him until his skin was a palette of black and blue, and then crush him against the floor.

Tony wanted revenge.

However, Adie came first. She was dying. If he didn't get her someplace safe soon, he was going to be beating himself up about it instead. He hoped that tonight wouldn't come to that. But by the look of Adie's graying skin, he couldn't be so sure. Whatever choice he made right now, he had to keep her in mind.

So, as badly as he wanted to hunt down the person who did this to her, he couldn't.

He pushed himself off of his knees and upright onto his feet. His teary gaze traveled down to their intertwined hands. He had curled her fingers through the gaps between his in a pathetic effort to pretend that she was holding his hand back. He promised himself that soon she would be. Soon, he would have her back.