INICIAR SESIÓNMargaret’s POVI couldn’t sleep because Lucien’s face kept on appearing in my thoughts. And then Leo’s question when he realized lucine might be his father. I had already spent five years keeping them apart without even knowing it. Now, in less than two days, everything I had buried was threatening to come back.I sat down behind my desk and was acting like I was studying reports that were scattered across my table when the guards announced his arrival.“Bring him in.”The door opened, and Lucien walked inside.I had told them to bring him to me because he asked and now that I stared, he looked really different from the man that I remembered. His hair was shorter, his beard was neatly trimmed, and he no longer carried the neglected appearance that I had noticed when he first arrived. But his eyes were still the same.Those eyes had once made me feel safe. Now, they made me afraid of everything I might remember.“Leave us,” I ordered.The guards stepped outside, closing the door behin
Margaret’s POVThe whole corridor went silent after Leo’s words. I kept on staring at him unable to find the words to answer him. His small fingers was still pointing to Lucien who was standing bwteeen the two guards. The king had not moved but then I could see the shock that was written all over his face. I wanted to tell Leo that he was making a mistake. I wanted to pick him up, take him away and pretend like he never asked the question I already spend years preparing myself to answer. But I couldn’t.“Leo, sweetheart,” I began, trying to force a smile. “You shouldn’t ask questions like that.”“Why?”“Because…”My eyes shifted toward Lucien. He was still watching with an expression that I could not look at for too long. It was a mix of Hope, disbelief and something that was painfully familiar. I had seen that look before. I had seen it five years ago, before everything fell apart.“Take Leo back to his room,” I told Mara.“But Mommy—”“We’ll talk later.”Leo frowned his face. cl
Lucien’s POVI barely slept.Every time that I closed my eyes, I saw Leo standing in front of me and his little hand resting on my cheek as he asked me whether I was his father.I had already spent five years of my life mourning Leah, and thinking that she had died because I had failed to save her. I had buried every hope of ever getting to see her again, and even punished myself for her death as I watched my kingdom slowly become something that I no longer cared about.Now, a little boy with my eyes had appeared in front of me. And his mother was a woman that looked exactly like the mate that I had lost.It couldn’t be a coincidence.I stood up from the bed and walked toward the door. Before I got the chnance to knock, it opened and one of the guards was standing there. “Where are you going?” He asked coldly. “I need to speak with Margaret.”“Commander Margaret hasn’t requested to see you.”“Then inform her that I need to speak with her.”The guard shook his head. “You’re not leavi
Lucien’s POVI could not answer him.The question stayed, hanging in the air that was between us, and for several seconds, I forgot how to breathe.“Are you my daddy?” He asked again, still smiling and waiting for me to say something. Gus small hand rested on my cheek and his eyes searched mine with an innocence that made the moment feel even more vulnerable than it was. I looked at him properly.His eyes were almost identical to mine. It was the same shape, the same intensity, even the slight narrowing when he concentrated. His nose and the curve of his face also looked very familiar.I had seen those features before.Anytime I looked at myself in the mirror. I remembered when I was a little boy, when I used to stand beside my mother while she brushed my hair away from my forehead. I remembered the way my father used to laugh anytime that I tilted my head while trying to understand something.Leo did the same thing.My stomach went tight. “Leo,” I managed to say.“That’s my name.”
Lucien’s POVI could not stop thinking about the little boy that I saw.Even after Margaret left, his face stayed in my mind. I had seen thousands of children in my lifetime, including the sons and daughters of powerful Alphas. But then there was something about Leo that unsettled me.It was not about his dark hair or the unusual brightness that was in his eyes. There was something in really familiar about the way that he had studied me, as if he had been trying to recognize something that he could not quite understand.I leaned back in my chair and rubbed my forehead.I was being ridiculous right now, I thought. Margaret already made herself clear. Leo had nothing to do with me, and I didn’t have a reason to involve myself in her personal life.Still, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had seen those eyes before.Maybe it was because they reminded me of someone or maybe it still balled down to the grief that I had carried for five whole years. I closed my eyes.That was exactly wh
Lucien’s POVThe door opened some minutes after Margaret left.Two of her guards entered, both of them armed and wearing the rebel insignia. One of them carried a sword across his back, while the other one held a communication device.“Commander Margaret wants you moved,” the taller one said.“Where?” I asked. “You’ll see it when we get there.” He replied. I stood up from the chair. “Am I still your prisoner?”The guard gave me a look that didn’t gave any humor in it. “That depends on whether you intend to behave like one.”I almost smiled. “Lead the way.”They escorted me through a narrow corridor and then down a flight of stone stairs. The stronghold was even larger than I had initially imagined it to be. Unlike the abandoned fortress that I had imagined, it was alive with activity.Warriors kept on moving in every direction, carrying weapons, supplies, and boxes of medical equipment. Some of them were werewolves, others vampires and a few had features that I could not immediately







