Lia’s POVThe next few days passed in a blur.I threw myself into work, clinging to the comfort of deadlines and spreadsheets. Logic, structure, control — things that didn’t lie, things that didn’t cheat.But no matter how much I tried, Ethan’s reappearance hung over me like an unfinished chapter I didn’t want to reread.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw his face — the guilt, the regret. I didn’t want to care, but some part of me, small and tired, still flinched at the sound of his voice in my memory.It scared me — how even a ghost from the past could still stir something in me.---Lucien noticed, of course.He had this uncanny ability to read people — to sense when you weren’t okay, even when you wore the perfect mask.He didn’t push, not at first. Just quieter glances, a longer pause in his words, a subtle shift in how close he stood beside me.By Thursday, he finally asked.“You’ve been… somewhere else lately,” he said, leaning against the doorway of my office. His tone wasn’t a
Last Updated : 2025-11-25 Read more