Chapter 111

Valerie hadn't returned home last night, and there was still no way to contact her even now. It left Lucius feeling increasingly irritable. It was a state of mind that Lucius had never experienced before. He had been the one to propose that they live without interfering with each other's lives, but the more he got to know her, the more he found himself being drawn to her. When he woke up this morning, he was still in his own bed. There were only two possibilities. The first was that the binding vow between Valerie and Lucius had lost its effect. The second was that Valerie hadn't slept the entire night. Either way, Lucius wanted to know where she was and who she had been with the previous night. As dusk began to fall again, Lucius started to feel uneasy. Was she not coming home tonight either? Every time he called, her phone was either switched off or out of service. He even went to her study, but strangely, he couldn't open the door, no matter how hard he tried or what method