Hailey:“Hailey, I'm so glad you are here. I was beginning to think you wouldn't want to see me again after your accident. We were supposed to be a team.” Lucien reached out to hold me.“Are we?” I asked before blocking his hands.“Of course,” he replied, holding my head in his hands tenderly.If we weren't in Hallow Hades, if we didn't go back and forth about where his loyalty truly lay and to whom his heart truly belonged, I might just have been convinced, but right now, I didn't trust him.“Why are you here?” he finally asked.I didn't know what to say, didn't know how to lie that I was avoiding Axel, so I ran to him for safety. I didn't know how to put it, so I had to use intimacy to distract him.“I'm here to see you,” I replied. “I wanted to wish you luck when you go out there tomorrow night.”I saw the guilt in his face when he heard those words. He kissed my head, and I felt nauseous. Was he so guilty that he couldn't even stare me straight in the eye?I lingered in his chambe
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