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the night Lucien Bl

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n smell destiny and st

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d have

ding too loudly in my ears. I stared at my reflection in the polished metal doors-dark hair pulled back neatly, pl

ary to be

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ors sl

the executive floor, som

avier than perfume, sharper than cologne. Power. Heat. Something anc

fr

testing me. I swallowed hard and forced my feet to move forward. The assistant a

is expecting you,

urse

at and through the supernatural world like a curse. I'd researched him the way anyone would before a hig

m mentioned

t it would feel like to st

cked

nt

lled, edged with something dangerous.

d the d

windows overlooking the city. And there-standing with his b

houldered. Pe

rned

eyes

orld

work. His gaze locked onto mine like a predator finding its target, and something inside me reacted violently-heat

ered in hi

or a s

it wa

saw it-the momentary crack in his control. His jaw tig

ence st

our name?"

teadier than I felt. "Thank you fo

ower. To my throat. To my wrists. To places that made no sense. His l

te," he sa

top myself. "I arrived ten minutes ea

napped bac

ure in the r

tone. Lucien Blackthorne looked... intri

sturing to the chair

sa

ined st

felt oddly small beneath his presence, like my body reco

wly, deliberately, like

said. "Which means either you're exceptional

mistakes," I

her

, but something sharper. "Confide

h respect, sir, you wouldn't have called me

ir cr

stopped

was painfully aware of every breath, every inch of sp

he la

ft. Dark.

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hit me l

your

ace closer to mine. Too close. His scent wrapped around me-smoke

ere," he continued

ingered, then snapped ba

ling me to tear this building

eath

and what you're

ed coldly. "Beca

d back, as if proximity alone was a

terview

ch dropp

And if you value your safety, Aurelia V

hould have

have ended

ething snapp

clutching at my heart as heat surged through my veins like fire

t," he

t it

pu

bo

nd terrifyi

ep toward me-the

voice thick with

in wor

every word like a blade. "I rejec

room

heard t

t and gasping for air, the last thing I saw was Lucien

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