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Chapter 45

Author: Michael Grey
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-29 07:21:16

LEAH

We don't talk on the way back to the suite.

Lucian walks two steps ahead like he's afraid he'll explode if I so much as brush his arm. And me? I'm too emotionally sunburned to try. My heels click on the marble in sync with his boots, and I hate that it sounds like a countdown.

Boom.

Boom.

Boom.

When we reach the suite, he opens the door like a soldier, controlled, and precise, no eye contact with me. He doesn't even wait for me to step in first. He just walks straight in, shrugs off his jacket, and tosses it over the chair like it was biting his skin.

Cool.

I kick off my shoes and start peeling myself out of this goddess-awful gown. It clings to my thighs like a leech. Lucian says nothing as I try taking off the dress, not even a word. The silence is so heavy that I could hear my heart beating in my chest. What the heck?

"Wow," I mutter, trying to smile as I unhook the straps of my shoes. "That wasn’t weird at all."

Still he says nothing.

I clear my throat, maybe he didn't hear
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