Chapter 215

AIDEN’S POV Ever since I became the director of Weston, my life has turned into one endless to-do list. Board approvals, software acquisition reviews, cybersecurity audits, product launch timelines, investor briefings, and reviewing AI infrastructure upgrades Lucian had greenlit without bothering to mention how much work they’d require afterward. Meetings stacked on meetings, emails that never stopped coming, contracts that needed my signature like my name was the only thing holding the damn company together. If I didn’t know Lucian better, I’d swear he was punishing me. That bastard had closed work early today, grinning like an idiot because he wanted to spend time with his woman. Meanwhile, he dumped half his workload on me and disappeared, probably already wrapped around Elora with not a care in the world. Now here I was, finally dragging myself home when the entire house was quiet and everyone was probably asleep. I pushed open my bedroom door and stepped inside, too tired to even