Chapter: The Punishment She Craved
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When Lucian Devlin walked into the penthouse that night, the silence was thick with something he couldn’t name. Maybe it was rage. Maybe it was possession burning a hole through his chest. Or maybe, it was that image—the one he hadn’t been able to shake since the moment it happened.
Serena.
Kissing another man.
Not just any man. The green-eyed stranger with the kind of face women remembered and men feared. Lucian had felt his entire being freeze in that moment. And then, it shattered.
He hadn’t spoken a word on the drive home. Kael had tried to brief him on security details from the banquet, but Lucian had waved him off, barely holding himself together. The sound of Serena's laugh from earlier still clung to his skin like perfume. The memor
