Lucas
As I drove home, my thoughts were tangled in a knot I couldn’t unravel. What I’d learned about Kaida still weighed heavily on my mind, but it wasn’t the only thing that haunted me. There was something else—a new, unfamiliar ache. A yearning I couldn’t quite explain, but one I knew I couldn’t ignore. It was for Alara.
Since that kiss, everything had changed. The connection between us was undeniable, an electric pull that had gripped me from the moment her lips touched mine. But I had no right to feel this way. She was Kaelen’s wife. Bound to him by fate, by duty, by a promise neither of them could break.
I turned into the long drive leading up to the estate, my heart heavy. Kaelen was a brother to me in all but blood, and this betrayal—this feeling I couldn’t shake—was a crack in t
