[Violet]
Lucien Vargsward was a mystery. Somehow, he always managed to shake my resolve—and that worried me.
Before I left the Moonfall pack, I was the kind of person who made decisions without flinching. I took the fall for Theodore without a second thought for my own future, convinced things would work out—like they always had. But they didn't.
The woman who raised me used to say there was a fine line between being brave and being stupid. She also used to say I was walking that fine line. How ironic.
Lucien…
My entire world seemed to orbit around him now. That alone was unsettling. How had my life ended up in the hands of someone I barely knew—and yet found comfort in the fact that he existed? It was a deeply contradictory way to feel.
I wasn't built to manipulate people. Even if I
