Chapter 18 Long Time No See

Lucas’s POV

I had received several messages from Alicia since she got into trouble.

All brief. All anxious. All unanswered.

Alicia had told me she was out of jail. She didn’t know what was happening anymore and needed to see me.

But I couldn’t reply.

It wasn’t out of cruelty. I had been busy—my lawyer had spent the better part of the night getting her charges buried under a fabricated medical certificate, the senator was cornered in a scandal, and Adrian was tying off the rest of the threads. If I had messaged her back mid-process, I risked breaking my focus.

But I also knew how humans worked. Silence made them spiral.

So I came in person.

I stood outside her building, arms crossed, leaning casually against the railing like I wasn’t calculating the exact timing of her arrival. I didn’t have to wait long.