LUCIUS' POV:
It was only after I left the library that I realized how heavily I was breathing.
There was a certain constriction in my chest that I did not understand, a sudden tremor in my legs that felt foreign to me.
At that moment in the library, staring into Cassia's eyes, inhaling her scent, gazing at her supple lips, I felt entranced.
It was like time had come to a standstill, like the only thing that mattered were those lips and those fingers intertwined with mine and those eyes that whispered to me. At that moment, everything in her called out to me.
And it was painfully beautiful. Well, that was until Ariadne came and ruined the moment.
I shook my head to maybe reset my brain, or at least just clear my head of such thoughts, like how my groin ached with something electri
