LOGINLucian POVThe morning came quietly, but my mind was already awake long before the sun rose.I stood by the window with my hands resting in my pockets while I focused on keeping my thoughts steady.Last night stayed in my head no matter how much I tried to push it away.I had left the bedroom early before Sienna even woke up because I did not want questions I was not ready to answer.A knock sounded on the study door, pulling me out of my thoughts.“Come in,” I said while turning back toward my desk.The door opened and Sienna walked in slowly.She looked calm and properly dressed for the day, but I noticed the tension in her shoulders immediately. Her hands were held together tightly as if she was nervous.“Good morning,” she said.“Morning,” I replied, taking my seat and opening a file in front of me.Then, a long silence filled the room.I could feel her watching me, waiting for something more, but I kept my attention on the papers. I knew what she wanted to talk about, and I was n
Lucian POVThe morning came quietly, but my mind was already awake long before the sun rose.I stood by the window with my hands resting in my pockets while I focused on keeping my thoughts steady.Last night stayed in my head no matter how much I tried to push it away.I had left the bedroom early before Sienna even woke up because I did not want questions I was not ready to answer.A knock sounded on the study door, pulling me out of my thoughts.“Come in,” I said while turning back toward my desk.The door opened and Sienna walked in slowly.She looked calm and properly dressed for the day, but I noticed the tension in her shoulders immediately. Her hands were held together tightly as if she was nervous.“Good morning,” she said.“Morning,” I replied, taking my seat and opening a file in front of me.Then, a long silence filled the room.I could feel her watching me, waiting for something more, but I kept my attention on the papers. I knew what she wanted to talk about, and I was n
Sienna POV Lucian pressed a lingering kiss to my forehead, that felt so soft against my skin. Then he reached over, grabbed the buzzing phone from the nightstand, and slid off the bed without a word.I watched him walk away completely naked, with broad shoulders rolling with each step, ass flexing as well as his back muscles.My eyes stayed glued to him until he disappeared through the doorway, leaving me frozen in the middle of the rumpled sheets.I blinked up at the ceiling, once, twice maybe, trying to make my brain catch up.My body still feels the aftershocks of what we had just done. My nipples feel tight and sensitive from his mouth.What the hell had we just done?We had just shattered every boundary we had sworn to keep, the no touching bullshit that means nothing now and yet the only thing I felt was a deep, aching satisfaction instead of panic.I had no regrets but my mind betrayed me anyway.A flash of my mother’s face surfaced. Her eyes widened with shock and disappointm
Lucian POV“I do not care about those rules!”The words had ripped out of me like they had been clawing at my throat for weeks.I couldn’t take them back, not anymore, not as though I wanted to.The second Sienna walked through that door in nothing but that long, thin sleep shirt that barely skimmed the tops of her thighs, hair still damp from the shower and curling at the ends, every ounce of restraint I had scraped together seems to evaporate.She looked soft, freshly bathed, smelling faintly of vanilla, and the sight of her standing there, uncertain but brave enough to knock, undid me completely.I had tried to fight it. God, I tried.I told myself we could talk, keep it civil, stick to the lines we had drawn in black ink on legal papers but the moment her eyes met mine across the room, wide and searching, the battle inside me was already lost.The part of me that wanted to protect her, possess her, worship every inch of her won in a heartbeat.Now she was under me on the bed with
Sienna POV I stood outside Lucian’s door longer than I intended to.The hallway was quiet, the mansion settled into the stillness that only came late at night.Ever since the car incident with Vivienne, with her standing there watching us drive away while tension filled every inch of the car, we hadn’t really spoken.Words had existed between us, practical ones, necessary ones, but nothing real.My hand finally lifted, and I knocked on his door.A pause followed.Then his voice came from inside, low and steady. “Come in.”I opened the door gently, walking in.Lucian sat on the edge of the bed, papers spread across his hands with his glasses resting on the bridge of his nose.The soft lamp beside him cast warm light across his face, sharpening the focus in his eyes as he read. Something about the glasses made him look different. He looked dangerously attractive in a way that caught me off guard.He hadn’t noticed me yet.I stepped inside carefully, closing the door behind me without a
Lucian POVThe sunlight reached me before I was fully awake.It slipped through the thin curtains and slowly filled the room with warmth which was hard to ignore.I tossed and turned on the bed, trying to stay asleep, but the light kept pulling me toward consciousness.As I moved, a sharp pain hit my head, causing me to let out a groan.The mattress beneath me felt unfamiliar, softer than the one I was used to, and the air smelled different too, like clean laundry mixed with a faint floral scent.I tossed and turned again, trying to understand where I was, and opened my eyes halfway. The pain in my head grew worse, forcing me to shut them again almost immediately.My head throbbed badly, like someone had hit it with a hammer.I lay there for a moment, breathing slowly, trying to piece together anything from the night before. The last clear memory I had was standing in my downing a glass of liquor and the sense that the mansion felt unbearable without her.Everything after that was bla







