_Kael's POV_
The last few days had been torture.
I kept to myself, drowned in paperwork I barely processed, barked orders I didn’t remember giving, and haunted the training grounds like a ghost. Not even a good fight with the warriors could burn off the frustration.
Because every moment I wasn’t busy?
I was thinking about Lisa.
Her eyes. Her voice. Her silence.
She hadn’t looked at me once at that party. Not even when I had stared at her like a starving man seeing food for the first time in weeks.
And Rylan. That bastard stood beside her like he had every right.
Valric hadn’t shut up since. He was just as obsessed. Just as tortured.
But even in the middle of all that, Roxanne wouldn’t stop pestering me.
She wanted to “spend time together.” She kept texting. Kept calling. Even sho
