When Lucas exited the cave restaurant in anger, he searched for somewhere he could go and cool off. He needed to get away, rid the dizzying thoughts off his mind, control his anger and take sustainable breaths.
The thought of Sia being with someone else makes pains ripple through his chest. It was just a stark reminder of a gem he lost. It doesn’t just pain him that Sia enjoys the warmth or jokes someone else provides.
What grieves him the most is the fact that someone other than him has seen, and has felt how amazing and wonderful Sia is. Bouts of jealousy trickled in and trickled out of him.
When he settled in his Uber, the driver peered at him through the rearview mirror and saw the redness that colored his cheeks. The redness is not the blushing kind of redness. It’s the kind of red
