Chapter 170

Valerie

The bar on 3rd Street is packed, but people part like the Red Sea when Lukas walks in ahead of me. It’s one of the perks of having a 6’8” mountain for a bodyguard—instant VIP treatment wherever we go. He isn’t pretty either. Lukas is manly and has a gloomy kind of face with stubble, a manbun, and eyes so intense people believe he is a Swedish Viking. Even his eyebrows—thick slashes of blon