[Violet]
"Tell me it's all a lie," I pleaded, my voice trembling as I stared at him—really stared. I wanted to find something in Lucien's eyes. Denial, maybe remorse. Anything. But his gaze broke from mine, drifting downward like the weight of my question was too heavy for him to bear.
"Lucien," I snapped, louder this time, my fists balling at my sides. "Tell me you didn't do all that!"
Finally, in a voice flat and tired, he said, "I can't."
Because he did.
I took a step back, blinking rapidly, trying to make sense of the man before me. The man I loved. The man I thought loved me. Had he really been the one pulling all the strings? Tearing my world apart?
My chest heaved. I marched toward the threshold, with every intention of planting my fist right into his face—but Fenrick's arm ca
