Between Lust and Power
By the time she returned to her apartment that night, she was trembling—not with fear, not entirely, but with the awareness of how intoxicating danger could feel, how close desire could be to disaster, and how some lines, once crossed, refused to stay hidden.
She couldn’t sleep. She couldn’t stop thinking. Every shadow seemed longer, every noise sharper. And through it all, one truth was undeniable: Lucian had marked her attention, her curiosity, her will.
And now, whether she liked it or not, she was marked.
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