Between Lust and Power
Every sound, every shadow, reminded her of proximity, of control, of desire tangled with danger.
That evening, she found herself unable to resist the urge to leave the apartment, to move, to force some kind of normalcy into her body. She wandered the streets, letting her heels click against the pavement, letting the hum of the city surround her, and pretending, for a little while, that she wasn’t being drawn into something she couldn’t name.
And then he appeared.
Lucian. Standing under a flickering streetlight, hands in his pockets, gaze fixed on her. The distance between them seemed smaller now, though it hadn’t changed. It was the pull between them, the unspoken gravity, that made it impos
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