Chapter 5

Lucas' presence was impossible to ignore because he always found some excuse to show up right in front of me.

Whenever I set up to film a cooking video, he would quietly wash all the ingredients and chop everything with surgical precision.

Those knife skills had to come from at least a decade in a professional kitchen. What exactly did this guy do before? Did he graduate from culinary school or something?

During my livestreams, he would appear just off-camera at exactly the right moment, handing me a glass of water at the perfect temperature.

And when I was fumbling…