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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
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THE BIDDING ROOM CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Lucien was not the kind of man you confronted when he withdrew. He didn’t explain himself or give reassurance and he definitely didn't soften. He erased and Evelyn realized –too late that in doing so, he had left a gap no one was guarding.She waited until midnight.The estate was quietest then, the guards shifting, routines loosening for a handful of minutes that only someone desperate would notice. She dressed simply. She had gotten this from the servant’s quarters when she had moved. No jewelry. No silk. Shoes meant for walking, not decoration. One thing people failed to realize is that she was a shadow and no matter how noticeable they thought she was, she was also able to blend with darkness but she knew she could not survive leaving the estate like that. So she had gotten an ally. She had a soft knock on her door. She opened the door, standing there as her ally.“Everything is set, are you ready?”“Yes, I am,” Evelyn said. They moved through the hall silently, passing some stai
THE BIDDING ROOM CHAPTER TWENTY
The door closed behind her without a sound.Evelyn leaned against the wall outside Lucien’s room, her chest rising too fast, fingers trembling as if they still held the weight of him. The hallway felt colder than it had before, emptier – as though something vital had been left behind.She pressed her palm to her heart. Her heart would not stop beating. You saved his life, she told herself. That was all. That was enough to explain this, but the memory betrayed her. The memory of the blood, the gunshot, the fear – they didn’t scare her. What scared her was the way Lucien had looked at her when she pressed her hands to his wound – not as a mafia king, not as a monster, not even as a man in control, but as someone who had never been chosen. She closed her eyes. The memory of the moment they just shared, his hands all over her body, the sounds that had emanated from within her. She didn’t know she was capable of such.She had always believed Lucien was incapable of gentleness. He ruled by
THE BIDDING ROOM CHAPTER NINETEEN
“You need to sleep. You need rest, the painkillers should be kicking in very soon” she said, still shaking.“I will, soon, I just want to look at you. Stay beside me, don’t leave.” he says as his eyes begin to close. Evelyn looks at him, worried, she smiles as her hand goes to his hair. She starts to subconsciously touch his head. She lays beside him as she watches him sleep. ***********Lucien’s eyes open and the memory of everything comes back to him. The pain is still there but not as much. He turns and feels someone beside him. Kali, her breath is on him, she is so close. He turns and smiles, as he watches her. He notices her cloth, she had changed into a silk nightgown, her hair smelled of petals and strawberries. He had never liked strawberries but right now, it was his favourite scent in the world. He reaches to touch her hair and her eyes open slowly.“You’re awake?” She says drowsily.“Yes, I was enjoying the view in front of me”.“I am glad, how do you feel?”“I could
THE BIDDING ROOM CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Lucien had just gotten back from a meeting with his close associates and was walking inside when he spotted Kali walking towards him. He had dismissed his bodyguards and waited for her. The gunshot came from nowhere. One sharp crack, too close, too fast—splintering the stillness of Manor. Lucien reacted on instinct, turning just as the second shot rang out and hit him in the hand. Pain shot along the side of his shoulder, almost grazing his neck as his vision blurred. He staggered once, not enough to fall but enough to surprise him. He could hear Kali screaming as he fell to the floor, heavy thuds on the floor as his bodyguards scattered everywhere – to save him and to catch that bloody shooter. Lucien looked up at Kali who had rushed to his side, one hand by his shoulder and the other at his stomach, his teeth clenched, breath controlled. He looked down at his side, where dark red was already soaking through his shirt, he had not realised that he had been shot a third time. “Kali
THE BIDDING ROOM CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The message arrived just before dusk. Lucien read it once. Then again.Then he crushed the phone in his hand. Damien watched the shards fall to the marble floor and did not flinch.“They’re demanding proof,” Damien said carefully. “Not cooperation. Proof.”Lucien’s voice was cold enough to frost steel. “They want a spectacle.”“Yes.”“And they chose the envoy to deliver it because they know he’s compromised.”Damien hesitated. “Or because they believe you are.”Lucien turned slowly.The room seemed to shrink around them.“Devils,” Lucien said quietly, “are allowed many sins. Mercy is not one of them.”Damien nodded once. “Then you’ll refuse.”Lucien’s gaze drifted to the window — toward the wing where Kali stood unknowingly at the center of a war she never asked to ignite. Something in him had shifted and he had begun to feel something for her, feelings he should never have.“No,” he said. “I’ll counter.”EVELYNShe waited until the house settled. Until the guards rotated and the ligh
THE BIDDING ROOM CHAPTER SIXTEEN
He stood in the interrogation room beneath the east wing — a space designed for truth, not comfort. The walls were soundproofed stone. The table was bare. The chair opposite him was already occupied.The tech engineer was sweating.“You understand why you’re here,” Lucien said calmly.The man nodded too fast.“You built the security grid.”“Yes, sir.”“You reviewed the blind spots.”“Yes.”Lucien leaned back slightly. “Then explain how a man walked through my estate, reached my inner wing, and left without triggering a full alarm.”“I…I don’t know…”Lucien raised a finger.The room went still.“I don’t accept ignorance,” he said. “Only intent or incompetence.”The man’s breathing broke.“I swear…no one accessed the system remotely. The breach came from inside the pattern itself.”Lucien’s eyes narrowed. “Meaning?”“Meaning whoever planned this knew your routines. Not the layout, you.”Silence thickened.Lucien rose slowly.“Remove him,” he said to Damien. “He lives. For now.”The tech
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