Chapter 3: The Night I Stopped RunningI didn’t open the bar the next night.I left the CLOSED sign hanging and the lights off. I sat on a stool in the dark with a glass of the same whiskey Lucien never really drank and waited. My body already knew he was coming. The air felt charged, like the moment before a storm breaks. My cock had been half-hard since sunset, thickening every time the wind rattled the windows or a shadow moved past the glass.I told myself I still had a choice.
I was a liar, and I knew it.At 12:47 the lock turned by itself.Lucien stepped inside like he belonged there, black coat open over a dark shirt, rain still clinging to his hair. He closed the door behind him without looking, eyes already on me. In the low light from the street they looked completely black. The scent of him—cold rain, iron, that sweet metallic undercurrent—hit me like a fist to the chest.“You didn’t open,” he said.“Didn’t feel like serving anyone else.”He crossed the room slowly, each st
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