Before Eliana could respond, Lucas quickly hung up. "Okay, I'm busy now, gotta go––."

He noticed he'd been acting strange lately. Finding himself thinking about Eliana during his free time, for instance. ‘If this continued, something was bound to go wrong,’ he thought. He needed to cut ties with Eliana, and soon.

Eliana hadn't expected Lucas to hang up so quickly. Disappointed, she hung her head and picked at her food without appetite.

Samuel ...