Claire's gaze was fixed on her phone until she stepped outside, but it remained ominously quiet, without a single new notification popping up.
Had Lucien missed her defiant message, or was he perhaps so irked that he decided not to reply?
A shiver of fear ran through her at the thought. What if Lucien was truly angry? What extremes might he go to?
'Point a gun at me? Bury me alive?'
The chilling possibilities made Claire shudder. She really didn't know how she was supposed to face him.
He was indeed dangerous, yet there were times she couldn't quite link him with peril.
"What's on your mind?" Andrew's voice broke through her troubled thoughts.
Claire lifted her head, her expression taut. "It's none of your business."
"You've been increasingly disobedient! If your mother were still
