Chapter 234 Feeling Lost

• Rook POV
• I lean back on the couch, drink in hand, letting their conversation wash over me. I don’t check my phone, I avoid thinking about Kade, my father doesn't even enter my mine. Tonight I just exist.
• The night moves on easily, the way it always does when I’m with the team. No pressure. No expectations. Just mindless conversation, food, and drinks. It’s the kind of distraction I need, the kind that keeps my thoughts from circling back to the one thing I don’t want to deal with.