LUCIEN
The room was silent, save for the rhythmic ticking of the great brass clock above the hearth. I sat behind my desk, reports sprawled before me—half read, half ignored. My mind wasn’t in Valtherion tonight… It was with her.
Evelara Stormrune, the woman who had wrecked my mind in a way I couldn't really grasp…
It was supposed to be otherwise, I shouldn't even let Eryx linger around her, heck I even kept his nanny on check! But with her—I don't know what happened to me.
It was Eryx who had wanted to stay close to Evelara, as a father I should cross the limit. He was my heir—he belonged in safety, not trailing after a woman who had already drawn too much scrutiny. But I was too greedy for his smile, for his childishness that I never got to witness before, and so, out of no
