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Chapter 33

Author: Tyrandria
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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

— Aphrodite —

Some nights, the lie was easier to wear.

Tonight wasn’t one of them.

Not when Lucas smiled at me like I hadn’t been built to ruin men like him. Not when he reached for my hand across the table like he wasn’t already marked. Not when the warmth in his gaze made me forget—if only for a second—that everything about this was staged.

I wasn’t supposed to feel anything.

Not tenderness.

Not guilt.

And definitely not guilt.

---

Lucas leaned forward over the candlelit table, his voice low. “You keep flinching when I look at you like this.”

I blinked. “Like what?”

“Like you matter.”

My throat closed.

He smiled gently, tilting his head. “It makes me want to look harder.”

I laughed—soft, broken—and looked down at the untouched wine in my glass. “Then stop looking.”

But he didn’t.

---

We left the restaurant late. The city was quieter now, the streets glistening faintly from a rain that had passed while we weren’t paying attention. Lucas held his umbrella over bot
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