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Flustered Lucian

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last update تاريخ النشر: 2026-01-14 18:41:51
Elara let out a quiet sigh and turned toward the shower, stepping beneath the spray as warm water cascaded over her skin.

The heat wrapped around her like a cocoon, soaking into tight muscles and aching bones, washing away the tension clinging to her like a second skin.

She closed her eyes. For a moment, she let herself simply exist and relaxed.

No calculations. No schemes. No masks. Just warmth. Just breathe. Just alive.

She didn’t know how long she stood there, lost in the steady rhy
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    The man couldn’t stop shaking. Not even a little. His fingers trembled so violently around the cigarette that ash kept spilling down the front of his wrinkled shirt and onto the oil-stained concrete beneath his boots. The nicotine did nothing anymore. Usually, it calmed him, usually one drag was enough to steady his nerves after a long shift or another screaming match with creditors. But now his lungs felt too tight to even inhale properly. Smoke caught in his throat. His chest burned. Sweat soaked the back of his neck despite the cool afternoon wind sweeping through the nearly empty convenience store parking lot. His heartbeat wouldn’t slow down. It only kept getting worse. Thud. Thud.. Thud... It was beating too loudly and too fast. Like his body already knew something his mind was still trying desperately to deny. He stood near the side of the building beside a flickering vending machine, staring blankly through the dusty glass windows of the tiny store while hi

  • The Bride They Sacrificed: Reborn To Love And Kill   CHAPTER 151

    The tension in the room grew thicker with Lucian’s last statement. Well... for the Vaughns. Because Elara couldn't stop grinning as she stared at Lucian with a loving gaze. For the Vaughns... The air felt wrong, too still, and too sharp, as if even the smallest movement might shatter whatever fragile restraint was barely holding everything together for them. No one breathed normally. Every inhale dragged, slow and heavy, scraping against the silence. Every exhale sounded too loud, like a mistake they didn't want to commit. And then... The door slammed open suddenly. There was no knock. It was a violent, bone-rattling crack that tore through the room so suddenly and so forcefully, it felt like the walls themselves shuddered under the impact. Every head snapped toward the entrance. Just who the hell opened the door like that? There stood... Nathan, Seraphina, Lisa, and Felix. They didn’t rush in despite the fire burning in their hearts. They walked in with a kind of quiet au

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    Aaron’s jaw tightened, the muscles ticking visibly as he took a step forward, his eyes locked on Lucian like a man itching for a fight he wasn’t sure he could win, but too prideful to walk away from. “You think you can just sit there and...” Lucian didn’t even look at him. Not even once. He was done talking to a wall. Heck! The reason he allowed them into the room was so that he could warn them to stay away from us inve and for all. He remained seated on the edge of the hospital bed, his posture relaxed, one hand gently wrapped around Elara’s, his thumb brushing slow, soothing circles over her skin like the Vaughns and Aaron’s presence didn’t exist, like his voice was nothing more than background noise. It wasn’t just dismissive. It was humiliating. And they deserved it. Naahh... they deserved more than that. Aaron’s voice rose, sharper this time, laced with frustration. “I’m talking to you!” Still nothing. Lucian’s attention never shifted. If anything, his grip on Elara’s hand

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    “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said finally, quieter now, but no less strained. “You think you can just walk in and understand everything? You think you know her better than I do? I grew up with her! I've been with her throughout her life! You are just a stranger.” Lucian’s expression didn’t change. It was as if whatever that Aaron did couldn't get to him. “I don’t need to know her better than you did,” he replied. Another step forward. Now there was barely any space left between them. “I just need to know that I would never treat her the way you did.” That... That hit. Not like a blow. Like a truth Aaron couldn’t dodge. “You don’t know what I did,” he said, but his voice had dropped, lost its earlier force, like even he wasn’t entirely convinced anymore. Lucian tilted his head slightly, studying him, not with anger, not with hatred, but with something far more cutting. Like... Aaron was a nobody. “I know enough.” He said. Aaron’s hands curled into fists, his

  • The Bride They Sacrificed: Reborn To Love And Kill   Chapter 147

    The silence didn’t break when Lucian turned away. If anything, it deepened and tightened, as a noose pulled one inch closer without warning. Aaron felt it before he fully understood it. That terrifying, irreversible shift. Because Lucian walking away wasn’t dismissal. It was a judgment already passed. It was the kind of quiet that came after a verdict, when the sentence had already been decided and there was nothing left to argue, nothing left to salvage, just the slow, suffocating realization that whatever came next would not be negotiated. Aaron’s fingers twitched against the floor, nails scraping faintly against the surface as he struggled to push himself upright, but his strength betrayed him. His body refused to cooperate, as it had finally caught up with the truth his mind was still trying to outrun. “No...no, you don’t get just to walk away,” he choked out, the words raw and uneven, filled with something close to desperation. Lucian didn’t even stop to give him a glance

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  • The Bride They Sacrificed: Reborn To Love And Kill   I Need You To Be At My Wedding, Lucien!

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  • The Bride They Sacrificed: Reborn To Love And Kill   Lucian! Please, Don't Let Me Down.

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