Alora’s POV
The AC in the room was turned off, but I was shivering from a different kind of cold and rage.
I stood up, “Excuse me?”
“It’s for your protection. Xavier will take care of you. You won’t have to worry about anything for the rest of your life.”
I stood abruptly.
“You can't just come in and make major decisions like that about my life. I don't know you, and I can't prove all you said is true, and I am not…”
“You know in your heart that what I said is true.”
My mouth went dry. “Then why didn’t you help me? All these years. Where were you when I was alone? Starving? Hurt? Kidnapped? Why now”?
Lucien’s jaw tensed, but his expression remained neutral. Because you weren’t ready. Because protecting you from a distance was safer. You were hidden for a reason. But now... things
