Chapter 147

ELORA'S POV “I'll just give you both some privacy.” Selene said, and of course, she had that mischievous little wink on her face…the one that always makes me want to throw a pillow at her. She slipped out the room before I could react, leaving me standing there with Lucas in the quiet of my living room. God. He wouldn't stop staring. Not since he walked in. Not since he handed me the bouquet of roses that looked like it needed a room of its own. He just stood there, his eyes fixed on me, saying absolutely nothing. The silence wrapped around us like thick smoke. And the longer he stared, the more it sinks in, no one dares look at him like that. They don't look at him directly. Most people are too intimidated, some are scared, others are too obsessed with impressing him. Not his staff, not the board members, not the employees scattered across his billion dollar empire could look at him the way I just did earlier. None of them could ignore him either. They wouldn't try. Except me. And jus