She watched as his face paled, and his body stiffened. His thumb froze and his sparkling eyes just turned dull. He let the phone fall off his ear.

"What happened?" she inquired but Lucas tensed, he didn't reply to her, his eyes darkened Jessica brought a hand to his face and only then he was able to say

"My father...died" the words left his mouth after a long silence, dull, with no emotion to them. She could feel the void in his voice when Lucas told her the news.

******

Jessica looked at her reflection in the mirror, she was wearing a sleeveless black dress that covered her knees; it...