Chapter forty six~ Room Sixty
Lucian’s POV>>>>>>>>
I sat quietly at the edge of the room, my back pressed against the cold wall, arms loosely wrapped around my knees. The silence between us stretched so thin it felt like it would snap with a single breath. But neither of us spoke.
She sat on the bed near the far window, partially lit by the pale moonlight streaming through the cracks in the curtain. Our gaze locked tightly, and I hated how easily my eyes found hers. Again and again.
Our eyes locked. There it was, that weightless, suffocating pull between two people who had said too much and nothing at all. My chest rose, slow and unsteady, the tension hanging like smoke.
Her fingers clenched tightly around the blanket, but even that couldn’t steady the trembli
