LUCIEN’S POV
When I roused from my sleep, I was engulfed in an unfamiliar silence.
The silence felt so loud, I lay there on the bed, disoriented. My eyes were fixed on the high ceilings, my hands instinctively reaching for the other side of the bed. Once my hands slid across the empty cold sheets my heart dropped.
Kellen wasn’t there, like usual.
The reality settled in slowly and painfully. The words our parent had told us a few days ago echoed in my mind once again. They had ordered us to sleep separately and once Kellen heard those words, he argued with them for a bit, but at the end of the day, he couldn’t change their mind.
As if this whole scandal wasn’t enough, they were taking the only person that could provide me with comfort from my grasp. I turned to my side, raising my knee
