Lucas
Kaelen and I had a long list of meetings lined up for the morning, so I wasn’t expecting much more than business as usual. Alara had been on my mind lately, but I’d been doing my best to keep my distance. Things were already complicated enough. And at this point, I knew that it was not healthy for me to think about her continuously.
Kaelen mentioned at the office that he had plans with Alara for dinner that evening—a special date. I could see how much it meant to her, the excitement in her eyes when he told her earlier. She’d been looking forward to it for days, and for a brief moment, I thought that maybe things would go back to how they should be between them. That maybe Kaelen would start to see her the way she deserved to be seen.
But as the day dragged on, something shifted i
