Someone’s POVLucille bit her lower lip, her gaze darting repeatedly to the restaurant entrance. Her fingers were clenched tight around her phone, pressing it as though sheer force could make it ring.Where the hell are you, Seb? she muttered inwardly, her frustration bubbling over.“It’s been ages, and he’s still not here!” Leo Johnson—her father—grumbled, cutting through her anxious silence. “Is he even coming, Lucille?”Lucille exhaled sharply.“Of course, Dad! He promised me he would! He has to come!” she snapped, voice tight with irritation.Her eyes flicked back toward the entrance, hope and impatience warring in her expression.“Maybe you’re just delusional again, Lucille,” Martell, her cousin, said with biting sarcasm. “Wasting our precious time.”Lucille’s eyes narrowed dangerously. Her hands slammed against the table as she shot to her feet.“You—”“Enough, Lucille,” Laura, her mother, interrupted in a calm but warning tone. “Sit down. Don’t mind your cousin.”Only Laura had
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