I had hurt him this badly, and still he couldn't let go. He really had lost his mind.
Lucian stared at me, his voice tight. "I don't believe you could walk away from me so easily. Three years ago… there had to be a reason. Right?"
A flicker of vulnerability and hurt passed through his obsidian eyes.
I had never seen that look on him before. And suddenly, I was pulled back to the very beginning.
A thin boy stumbled through the rain, jostled by the crowd yet refusing to fall. He pushed forward stubbornly, fighting his way onto the bus—just to bring food to his mother in the hospital.
He should have been the young heir of the Vance family. Instead, he lived like that.
I grabbed his hand and pushed through the crowd, muttering under my breath. "Cutting the line. What, are you in a rush t
