Chapter 103

Maeve’s POV

I glanced at the clock on my computer screen for what felt like the hundredth time: 5:45 PM. The digital numbers seemed to mock me.

It had been forty-eight hours since Lucas had last set foot in the office—forty-eight hours of dodging curiosity from the staff, burying myself in emails, and watching the door like a prophet from heaven was about to walk through it.

In that time, I’d bec