Lucien:
I watched them leave.
I watched as she walked away with him, frightened, too panicked, and her heart racing as she walked away with him, not daring, for a second, to tell him what happened.
From a distance. From the shadowed edge of the store, where the light didn’t quite reach and no one thought to look twice.
She clung to him.
Not weakly. Not desperately.
But instinctively.
That alone made something dark curl in my chest.
“She didn’t scream, and she didn’t call for him.” one of my men muttered beside me. “You could’ve taken her right there. She wouldn’t have said a word about it, and by the time he realized it would have been too late.”
Another scoffed quietly. “Or killed him. He was distracted. Surrounded by civilians. One clean strike and it would’ve been over. And it
