Serena gazed at him and inclined her head deliberately. "Yes. I do not want to be locked indoors every time the moon is visible. Tonight, I would like to smell the woods, although briefly."
Lucian inclined his head. "Then we will go for a walk."
They entered the forest together. Their feet crunched over the leaves on the ground, and the soft hooting of owls echoed somewhere in the distance. The lower they went, the stronger was the moonlight that flowed down to envelop them, filtering through c****s in the cover.
The quiet rhythm of the forest soothed her. Lucian walked a step or two ahead, his posture guarding, but his silence suggested that he was lost in his own musings.
For a moment or two, there was peace—just the whispers of the trees and the distant howl of the wolves beneath th
