Chapter 79

Maeve's POV

I sat in the hollow silence of the lobby, the after-hours hush broken only by the distant buzz of the city and the occasional drip from the rain-soaked awning.

My mind was curled tight around a single, raw fact: Lucas was engaged.

He wasn't with Celeste, but someone else. The realization was almost worse.

Was this why he’d kept his personal life buried? To keep me from finding out, or