I don’t know how long I stand there, paralyzed with fear that he’ll storm back in. The room is steeped in his scent—heady, masculine, and darkly intoxicating. It lingers in the sheets, clings to my skin, fills the very air I breathe. I wonder, with a detached sort of curiosity, if he sleeps naked. The thought sends an unwelcome heat creeping down my spine, and I shake it off with a sharp exhale. I jolt upright, wrapping the sheets tighter around myself as if they offer some kind of protection. My pulse still thrums too fast, every muscle coiled as I listen for the sound of heavy footsteps returning. But they don’t. Lucian doesn’t come back. The silence stretches on, broken only by the rhythmic ticking of a clock somewhere in the room. I press a hand to my chest, willing my heartbeat to settle, trying desperately to make sense of my situation. Dario Boncini may not be my father, but he is still a man who owns people, controls them, bends them to his will. The difference is, he
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