Chapter 148

Valeria Pov

Lunch is ready, I told him as I dropped one plate of steaming pasta in front of him.

Beta Leander didn’t respond right away. His eyes were glued to his phone, thumb tapping rapidly against the screen like the world would end if he stopped texting. Typical.

I rolled my eyes. “Seriously?” I said it louder this time. “You’re going to ignore my cooking for a text?”

He looked up, startled,