The next day at work.
"Mr. Vale, Mr. Vale is here to see you," Harper said, sticking her head through the door.
Cade raised his head from the field he had been doodling in all this while and looked at Harper standing by the doorway. Surprisingly, she had been so good he couldn't find any fault with her.
"Send him in," Cade said, standing up from his desk to the couch set in the room. He would much better have Cael over at the couches than at his desk, and moreover, he had been hunched over his desk all morning.
"It is lunchtime; do you want to go have some with me?" Cael asked as he walked into the room.
"And risk dying at your hands from food poisoning? You should realize that I am clearly better than you," Cade said. He was on edge from what had happened last night with Ophelia. She
