CHAPTER 8
LUKE SAT AT his desk at work, looking at a tricky coding problem that had stumped his software developers. At least, that’s what he was pretending to do. In reality, he’d doodled a row of circles and was busy colouring in every other one. First red, then green, then blue. Did he have a yellow pen anywhere?
He lifted his hands up to rub his eyes, fingers brushing against several days’ worth of blond stubble. Shaving seemed like too much effort at the moment.
Nearly two weeks had passed since the life he’d enjoyed with Ash was thrown into chaos. First by his sister being kidnapped, then by the revelation that his girlfriend wasn’t the sweet ex-housewife she’d pretended to be. It was five days since Ash rescued Tia then promptly disappeared, and the whole episode had left him sha
