All Chapters of Loving Him For 30 Days: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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Chapter 31: Eight O’Clock

Eli knocked at Lucien’s door by eight exactly and Lucien opened the door.They looked at each other for a moment, neither of them quite ready to start, and then Lucien stepped back and Eli came in.His dorm room was neat, with a perfectly organized desk, his bed made, and everything exactly where it was supposed to be. Eli had never been here before and it felt like stepping into Lucien’s mind. He wore a plain grey shirt with no blazer, and, most importantly, he didn’t wear his silver bracelets. Eli had never seen Lucien without them. They sat down, Eli on the edge of the bed, Lucien in the desk chair turned to face him, and the room went quiet.“I read the article,” Eli saidLucien said nothing.“Not like that,” Eli said. “I mean I read it and I understood something I didn’t understand before.” He looked at his hands. “You’ve been grieving your mother for eight years not knowing why she died and I was angry at you for caring about my mother enough to do something about it.” He lo

Last Updated : 2026-05-07

Chapter 32: Sunday Morning

Eli usually woke up when his alarm rang and his body immediately started moving with his feet on the floor before his brain had finished loading. But he woke up slowly, it was gradual and warm, he was aware of where he was before he opened his eyes and he just lay there to take in the moment.Lucien was already awake when he opened his eyes, he was lying on his side facing him, and he didn’t look away when Eli caught him. The old Lucien would have looked away immediately and found something to be doing, but now he just looked at him with a warm expression and unguarded, and said nothing.“How long have you been awake,” Eli said, his voice rough with sleep.“A while,” Lucien said.“Were you watching me sleep?”“I was thinking.”“About what?”“You make a very undignified face when you sleep,” Lucien said.Eli laughed, morning voice and everything, and Lucien grinned at him, and the room was full of early Sund

Last Updated : 2026-05-08

Chapter 33: Named

The legal notice had been circulating for six hours before Dean Ward’s email arrived in Lucien’s student portal at four on Sunday afternoon.‘Mr Vale, please attend my office at nine o’clock Monday morning regarding a matter of conduct. This meeting is mandatory’Lucien read it twice, closed his laptop, and called Seraphine.She picked up on the second ring. “I saw the complaint,” she said, before he could say anything.“I need you at the hearing,” he said. “Whatever form it takes.”“I’ll be there.” A pause. “Lucien, Dad has seen it too.”He didn’t say anything.“He called me an hour ago,” Seraphine said. “He knows about the pharmaceutical connection. About Mum.” Another pause, shorter. “He’s not reacting the way I expected.”“What did he say?”“He said he’d handle it.”Lucien sat back in his chair and looked at the ceiling and felt the weight of those three words the way he’d felt them hi

Last Updated : 2026-05-09

Chapter 34: The Hearing

Seraphine Vale arrived at Saint Aurelius at eight forty-five on Wednesday morning and Lucien was already waiting at the gate when her car pulled up.She stepped out, looked at him, and said, “You look tired.”“Good morning to you too,” he said.She hugged him briefly, which she always did when nobody was watching, then stepped back and assessed him.“Have you eaten?”“I’m fine.”“That’s not what I asked.”“Seraphine.”“Lucien.” She adjusted the strap of her bag. “Eat something before we go in, you’re not arguing on an empty stomach.”“You’re the one arguing.”“You’ll be doing it in your head and your face will show it, which amounts to the same thing.” She looked past him toward the main building. “Where’s Eli?”“Waiting room outside Ward’s office.” Lucien said. “He insisted on coming.”Something moved across Seraphine’s expression, she was pleased about this and she wasn’t hiding it particularly well.“I haven’t met him yet,” she said.“I’m aware.”“You’ve been keeping him from me.

Last Updated : 2026-05-10

Chapter 35: The Night After Everything

The Lion’s Den was quiet by the time they got back to Lucien’s room.Eli came in first, dropped his jacket on the desk chair and turned around, and Lucien was already looking at him, the door still open behind him.“Close it,” Eli said and Lucien closed it.The room felt different with the door shut, smaller somehow, not uncomfortably, just more aware of itself. Eli sat on the edge of the bed and Lucien stayed near the door for a moment, which was unusual because Lucien never hesitated.“You’re doing the thing,” Eli said.“What thing?”“Where you stand very still and pretend you’re not thinking about something.”Lucien crossed the room and sat beside him, close enough that their shoulders touched, and neither of them moved away.“I’m not pretending,” Lucien said.“So you are thinking about something.”“Yes.”“Tell me.”Lucien looked at him, and Eli saw it, the thing he’d been seeing more and more lately, the want that Lucien had stopped trying to keep off his face. It was different

Last Updated : 2026-05-12

Chapter 36: What the Camera Saw

Chapter Thirty-Six: What the Camera Saw@saintaurelius_confessions: good morning saints. I'll keep this short. Lucien Vale and Eli Thorne are officially dating. I know, I know. take a moment. the boy with the pastry box actually did it. We were all witnesses. That's all. The comments were different from every other time the account had posted about them.‘i’m not okay’‘the lemon tart was day one i’ve been here since the beginning’‘eli thorne said he was going to win him over on day one and he actually did i need to sit down’‘the scholarship boy ate and left no crumbs. respect’‘cassian roe owes eli thorne an apology and a gift basket’Eli read it at seven forty-three with his coffee still in his hand and said nothing for a long moment.“They’re being nice,” he said.Noah looked over from his desk. “They’re always nice when they’ve been rooting for something and it works out.”“They weren’t always nice.”“They’re nice now,” Noah said. “Take it.”Eli put his phone down and picked up

Last Updated : 2026-05-13

Chapter 37: Elena Vale

Eli’s reply was still on his phone screen when Lucien sat down on the edge of his bed.Lucien had twenty minutes, maybe thirty, and he sat there in the quiet of his room with his jacket still on and his hands loose in his lap and didn’t move.The photograph was not in his possession, Mira had it, but he could still see it, the angle of his father’s shoulders at the restaurant table, the man across from him whose name Mira had written in the margin with her precise handwriting. He could see it the way you see things not with your eyes but with whatever part of you keeps inventory.He thought about his mother.He didn’t do this often, he had learned not to, he had learned at twelve years old and every year since that thinking about Elena Vale in any sustained way led somewhere he couldn’t afford to be, not if he needed to function after.But he was sitting in his room and he was going to tell Eli something he hadn’t told anyone, not Cassian, not Seraphine, not the therapist his father h

Last Updated : 2026-05-14

Chapter 38: 2:51pm

Eli came in and looked at Lucien’s face and didn’t say anything immediately, which was the right call.He came in, closed the door and took off his jacket and put it over the desk chair the way he always did now, like the desk chair was already his, like this room had already made space for him, and then he sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Lucien who was still standing by the window.“You okay?” Eli said.“Yes,” Lucien said, which was partially true.Eli looked at him for a moment, reading the room the way he always did, quietly and without making a performance of it, and then he reached over and pulled Lucien’s pillow onto his lap and leaned back against the headboard and said nothing else.Lucien looked at him, at the dark curls and the amber eyes and the complete absence of pressure in his expression, and felt something in his chest loosen by a degree.He crossed the room and sat beside him, not against the headboard, just on the edge of the bed, elbows on his knees.“Mira

Last Updated : 2026-05-16

Chapter 39: The Senator

Something about the hearing, especially the way the Hargreaves’ legal team had folded when she mentioned her father’s campaign, wasn't sitting right with Seraphine.They hadn't looked defeated, they had looked pre-empted, so she headed for the Vale estate, the sprawling, glass-and-steel fortress that Everett called home. It was a house built for a man who wanted to see everything coming and wanted no one to see in both literally and figuratively.She bypassed the assistant in the foyer, didn't knock on the study door and just threw it open.Everett Vale was standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, a glass of scotch in one hand and a tablet in the other. He didn't turn around nor did he flinch at the sound of the door hitting the wall."The hearing went well, I assume," Everett said, his voice was smooth, the resonance of a man who had already rehearsed the victory speech."Lucien is cleared. Eli’s scholarship is safe," Seraphine said

Last Updated : 2026-05-17

Chapter 40: Complications of a Pattern

Noah liked things that could be counted, the precise weight of his grandfather’s silver pocket watch, and the predictable rhythm of the track team’s lap times. The exact number of minutes it took for the electric kettle on his desk to reach a boil. Patterns were safe to him and they didn’t require you to guess what came next.He was sitting on the edge of his bed at half past ten, watching the second hand of his watch sweep past the markers without registering the time, thinking about Cassian Roe, which was an incredibly inconvenient development he had been trying to file away since the Westhaven trip and failing completely.It wasn't tea. Well, it was partly the tea. But it was mostly the expression on Cassian’s face at Sunday breakfast when Noah hadn’t reacted the way Cassian expected, that brief unguarded moment where Cassian had looked at him with something that wasn’t a smirk and wasn’t a performance and Noah had no useful category for it.He closed the watch with a sharp click,

Last Updated : 2026-05-18

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