✦ Chapter 48 ✦
Song Recommendations for this chapter: Herry Styles, As it was ( slowed)
The stranglers, Golden brown ( slowed )
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Lucien's eyes opened slowly, as though pulled from a sleep too light to truly hold him. For a moment, he did not move, his breath steady, his mind still caught between dream and waking. Then instinct stirred within him. His arm extended across the bed, searching for warmth, for softness, for the familiar presence that had rested beside him through the night.
His hand met only cold sheets.
The absence struck him instantly.
His eyes snapped open, alert now, sharp, searching. He pushed himself upright, silver hair slipping over his shoulders like falling moonlight — and then he saw him.
