Chapter FIFTY THREE

GABRIELLE Lucian returned later in the evening, just when I was just about to fall asleep, the door was pushed opened and he walked inside. He met my gaze briefly before he walked over to the wardrobe and started to take off his shirt. I pretended to be busy with the book in my hand, he couldn't know that I had waited up because of him. In these past few days, he always left for work before I woke up and always returned when I must have slept off. Why would a person work so much? Wasn't it too tiring? Truth was that I missed him. And it was way more than even I would ever understand. When I didn't want his attention, I had all of it. And suddenly, when I did, he was ignoring me? My eyes followed him until he entered inside the bathroom and I heard the sound of the shower running. I released a sigh I didn't know I was holding, it was of disappointment, he could have at least said something. Or maybe I should speak to him instead. He returned about ten minutes later in only a piece of a