LUCIEN DRAVEN POV

"I asked you a question, Kaida. Who were you talking to?"

She didn't answer immediately. She just stared at me wide-eyed and startled.

And I got distracted by her eyes for a second.

The green of them was so vivid, it felt like I was slipping right into them.

When did they start looking like that? Or have they always been like this and I've just never cared enough to notice?

A slow, unfamiliar unease curled in my chest.

Why the hell was I noticing it now? Now, when I should be furious, when every instinct in me was screaming that Kaida Reed was hiding something?

"Miss...