Lucian got back from skating with Miguel just as the streetlights flickered on, the sky behind the packhouse fading from orange to a deep, bruised purple. The evening air had turned cool, carrying the smell of pine and wet earth after the afternoon's brief rain.Skating with Miguel wasn't really about the skating anymore. It was the one hour of his day nobody wanted anything from him, no training schedules, no going through border reports, nopack files or complaints to go through. Just pavement and momentum and Miguel complaining about his ankle.With a satisfied groan, Lucian took the stairs two at a time, legs pleasantly wrecked from the afternoon. He shoved his door open and slapped the light switch without looking.The room flooded with light, and he froze.Sitting by the window was his younger sister, Phoebe, chin propped on her palm, watching something outside that clearly wasn't there anymore. The curtains stirred around her in the breeze."Phebs?" He broke into a grin. "You sa
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