Morning came quietly.That was what frightened me most.After everything we had survived—blood, secrets, laboratories, altered memories, dead men returning from the grave—I had expected the next morning to feel different.Louder.More dangerous.Instead, pale sunlight slipped through the broken windows of the underground facility and touched the floor as if the world outside had no idea what had happened during the night.But I knew.Lucien knew.And the moment I opened my eyes, I felt him.Not beside me.Inside me.His heartbeat echoed beneath my own.His exhaustion settled over my bones.His fear brushed against my thoughts.And beneath all of it was something warmer.Love.I turned my head.Lucien was sitting against the wall several feet away, his sleeves rolled to his elbows, his face pale from exhaustion.His eyes met mine.Neither of us spoke.We didn't need to.For the first time in our lives, there were no walls between us.No lies.No hidden memories.No carefully constructe
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