Serena was frozen, turned away from Elias, tears still streaking down her face. She didn’t hear him go, didn’t notice when he withdrew, but she felt the retreat that accompanied his leaving — the stillness following him like a tail. The air around her turned stagnant and heavy in her chest; there was a weight on her heart.Lucian had appeared next to her, as imposing as before. There was a glint in his eyes, a combination of contentment and interest as he regarded her. “You did the right thing,” he said in a low, somehow indifferent-sounding voice. “You belong to me, under my protection now.”Before she could even respond, Lucian walked off without another word, leaving Serena drowning in the cold silence of the room, feeling more lost than she'd been moments ago. She stood torn between the life she had chosen and the life that could have been, the path she had taken and the gnawing sorrow that had caught the place in her mind where hope toed the line between optimism and despair. Aft
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