“Pen…” Thea started trying to calm the storm but it was already too late. Pen was already slamming her hand against the table and glaring at Lucian like a true angry bird character as her red locks flew around her shoulders in a magnificent sigh while her jewel-like eyes shone like two beams of laser. Haden who sat before her looked at her as if in a daze and Thea immediately knew that the man wasn’t going to be any help in this situation. Nor was Lucian who was looking at Pen with the same provocative smile as if he hadn’t just dropped a small bomb into her lap. “This man is insinuating that you don’t deserve your position, Thea!” Pen said, “I of all people will never be able to sit around and listen to him say something like this about you while knowing everything you went through to get here,” “Pen! Calm down. What he’s trying to say isn’t like this. He just said it without considering his words,” She said, “Oh, I mean every word I said…” Lucian said and Thea turned around and

Thea shivered a little as she stood in front of the high-end restaurant waiting for an opportunity to go inside. According to her intel after spending so much time with her uncle’s old security officer, she knew that her uncle always had lunch in the restaurant every evening. It was a hard place to get into without being considered a regular or having a reservation, so after failing to get inside a few times, with the last time being grabbed by the arm and pulled out by one of the security guards, she stood there brooding and waiting for an opportunity to slip inside as the cool air began nibbling into her skin and seeping through her clothes. Seriously, she should have thought this through. Or maybe she should have attended those events her grandfather asked her to go to in his stead. That way she would have at least had access to someone who would give her an early reservation in the restaurant. “So this is why you refused to have lunch with me?” Thea turned around to find Lucian

Thea slowly walked down the corridor as if the VIP reserved ward was her property. She looked around for a bit then as soon as she saw the door number before her, she paused taking a deep breath. A tremor passed through her as she readied herself to meet the person beyond that door. Her uncle. The man who was greedy enough to steal money from his sister’s charity program.She slightly knocked and opened the door not bothering to wait for an answer. As she stepped inside, she found two men sitting there on the table cutting down some fancy meat as they spoke.It seems like she interrupted them.Even Better….“Oh my! I thought that you would be alone… It seems like I interrupted…” She said in the same formal way she addressed her grandfather in public.It was a convenient way of speaking when she thought about it. It bellied familiarity and closeness, but it didn’t lack the politeness expected by their society.“And who might you be?” The man at the right said whom she knew was her un

“So, let me ask my first question,” Lucian said leaning forward on his seat as soon as the waiter left their table.“Alright,” She said, “What is it that you want to know so much from me?”“Is there someone in your life right now, or someone you have your eyes on romantically speaking?” He asked and Thea wanted to be surprised at that question but she honestly wasn’t.Lucian had been digging into that part of her life persistently since they met and Thea was wondering when he was going to get tired of it.“I don’t have anyone like that and I don’t intend of making one either…” She answered sipping from her champagne feeling a bit disappointed.What had she expected from him?What kind of question was she waiting for…“Hmmm,” He hummed seeming quite satisfied with her answer as he passed the tip of his finger over his wine glass like. Somehow, the scene was so erotic and sexy under the golden light lighting the restaurant that Thea had to take a deep breath.The man could simply breath

Lucian silently watched as Thea walked into her house closing the door behind her, then he started his car and drove away from the house trying not to clench the steering wheel so hard.He screwed up… He screwed up big time and he needed to do some damage control.With the way things are right now, he would be lucky if she agrees to remain his friend from now on. Not to mention his wife…Anger rose within him as he remembered her face when he mentioned “Boundless”. He had underestimated the hold that program had on her. It was almost a dirty move to play on her seeing how she reacted.Damn, he even reduced her to tears and managed to wound her pride twice since they met. What kind of screwed-up plan was he following?!Lucian sped up the road heading toward the coast. He needed to clear his head a little. Maybe that would help. Or maybe it won’t and he would keep screwing things up with her.As he reached the place, his phone rang and he sighed looking at the screen.“It’s a total bu