The gunshot didn’t fade.
It echoed again and again inside Lucian’s head.
Selene hit the ground, and for a split second, everything stopped.
No sound
No movement.
No thought.
Then something in him broke.
“Selene.”
Her name wasn’t a call.
It was a warning.
To everyone.
Lucian moved fast, violent, unstoppable.
The man who fired didn’t even get a chance to react. Lucian’s gun came up. One shot.
Clean. Fatal.
But it wasn’t enough.
It would never be enough.
More attackers poured into the hallway, shadows turning into targets, targets dropping into lifeless bodies.
Lucian didn’t think. Didn’t hesitate. Didn’t hold back.
He became exactly what they feared ruthless, precise, deadly.
Every shot landed. Every movement calculated. Every second lethal.
Because they touched her.
And
