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Caged in Silence

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Chapter 21 — Caged In Silence

The ride to the coast was suffocating. Not because of the silence, it was Lucian’s silence that caged me. He didn’t touch me. Didn’t speak. His eyes stayed fixed on the road ahead, jaw tight, fingers flexing against the steering wheel like each breath he took was an effort not to break.

When the car finally stopped, the night air was damp and heavy with salt. The house rose out of the cliffs like it had been carved from shadow itself, glass and steel staring down at the waves below. A prison disguised as paradise.

Lucian didn’t wait for me. He opened my door, pulled me out by the wrist, and guided me inside without a word. No staff. No Mona. Just the two of us and the storm between us.

He released me in the middle of the living room. Floor-to-ceiling windows revealed the ocean crashing against black rock, relentless and merciless. His silence was worse than his anger.

“Say something,” I snapped, my voice sharp against the stillness.

Lucian turned sl
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