ADELE’S POV“No, Lucien,” I said, my voice barely above a whisper, shaking my head like that could make the words disappear. “I didn’t quite get you. What did you just say?”My heart was slamming against my chest so hard I thought it might bruise my ribs. Please, let this be a mistake. Let me have heard wrong. Let this be some cruel dream I could wake up from. The room spun a little, the sunlight from the window suddenly too bright, too harsh. I stared at him, willing him to take it back, to laugh and say it was nothing.Lucien’s eyes met mine, and oh God, the fear in them—it was raw, desperate, like a man staring down the edge of a cliff. His face was pale, lips pressed into a thin line, and for a second, he just looked at me, like he was memorizing my face before everything shattered.“She claims I’m the father of her child, Adele,” he said, the words tumbling out in a rush, like if he didn’t say them fast enough, they’d choke him. “She’s saying some story about me getting drunk on
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