Chapter 102

ELORA'S POV Having dinner with grandma while eating the food she personally prepared with love made the evening quite bearable, the kind of evening that almost lured me into believing that life could be simple again. But it never was, not with Lucian. Just when I thought that we finally had some kind of silence after Liam’s stupid comments about his “sister-in-law”, Lucian’s phone rang. He glanced down at it and his face lit up before he excused himself abruptly. “Grandma, I have something to attend to,” he said, already rising from his seat. Before I could say anything, Nora spoke up. “I'll go with you, Dad.” I looked at her, I looked at the way her eyes lit up at the thought of going out with her father. She always wants to be by his side. Grandma looked up at Lucian and said, “Then take Elora with you since Nora is going. At least you can all spend some time together.” But I forced a smile and shook my head. “I can't go with them, grandma. I'm meeting up with a friend later.” Grandm