The Bride They Sacrificed: Reborn To Love And Kill
Susan was crying openly now, her shoulders shaking, her hands twisting together in her lap as if she could physically wring the past out of existence if she just tried hard enough.
“I learned very early,” Lucian said, his voice lower now, rougher, stripped of pretense, “that there’s something in me that doesn’t know moderation. That's when I cross a line, I don’t stop halfway. When that happens, all I can see is red and blood.”
His eyes flicked down to Elara just for a moment.
Just long enough for the room to understand everything that went unsaid in that glance, how much trust it took to stand beside her, how much control it took not to let the darkness swallow him whole.