Braelyn's POV
He was infuriating. Why was he acting like he cares all of a sudden? He should just bloody ignore me like he did in the past. Now he suddenly cares when it felt like shit was falling apart.
Lucien and I had a meeting with some contractors. Alcohol was available. It wasn't my thing to get drunk, but I couldn't take my mind off the diary when I was with him. My head kept thinking about it over and over again like a broken disk.
If that wasn't the only unnerving thing, it was the slight change in Raphael. I noticed his gaze during the meeting, although Lucien didn't even give me the chance to pay attention to it as he was shamelessly flirting with me.
I played along for the sake of the game, but his heated gaze, filled with complex emotions, stayed fixed on me. Especially how he fled the boardroom after the meeting.
I hated the fact that he was even on my mind.
