Chapter 24

• Lucas frowned. He dutifully stayed for the entirety of his meeting, as necessary, but wondered the entire time. Distracted, annoyed, why wouldn’t she leave? What was he supposed to do if she remained at his house the entire day, and was there when he came home? Of course he could ignore her, but what kind of message did that send? She couldn’t just stay at his house, but he felt badly about forcefully removing her, too. Not that he had to do anything more than make a phone call or two, but he didn’t think Amira deserved that.
• Except, why not? He planned on never seeing her again, so what did it matter?
• His annoyance only grew when he checked his text messages during a lull in the business meeting.