- Are you planning to work until you drop dead of exhaustion? - Lucian heard a voice from his office door.

It was Malla, who had entered at some point and he hadn't even noticed because he was lost in his thoughts, which weren't necessarily about work, but about a brown-haired woman who had turned his world upside down.

- I'm fine, don't worry- he said, running his fingers over the bridge of his nose and between his eyebrows in a gesture of total exhaustion.

- Lucian, I know I am wasting my bre