ADELINE's POV
As soon as I walked into the house, I saw that Lucian was already in the kitchen. Normally, he wouldn’t be home this early, so I glanced at him with a bit of suspicion.
“You’re home?”
“Yeah, felt a bit worn out today, so I came back early.” He still didn’t realize that, by now, I could read whether he was telling the truth just by looking into his eyes. There was something else hiding there, a frustration he was trying to mask.
“Look what I got!” I said, holding up the guitar as if it was a grand prize.
“Oh, now’s the part where I pretend to know something about guitars and start tossing out fake compliments, right? Nice guitar,” he said, raising his eyebrows playfully.
“You say that, but if I told you it’s worth the price of a house, maybe it’d spark some more apprecia
