All Chapters of Marked By My Fiance's Alpha Uncle: Chapter 51

LUCIAN.The clock on the office wall struck two in the afternoon, its rhythmic ticking the only sound inside the fifth-floor suite.Lucian didn't look up from the stack of administrative files spread across his desk. For five days, he had buried himself in department budgets and board petitions, working eighteen hours a day to keep his mind from drifting back to an empty villa.His wolf, however, refused to cooperate that afternoon.The beast paced behind his ribs, its claws dragging against his lungs in a tight, agitated circle. It growled at every passing footstep in the hall and demanded what it had been demanding since forever: Find her.Lucian signed his name at the bottom of an equipment procurement sheet when a knock came at his door.“Enter,” Lucian said.Maeve stepped into the room, holding a manila folder shutting the door firmly behind her. She was stepping up to the edge of the desk without her usual jumpy posture. She didn't offer a flirtatious remark or try to seduce him