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2024-10-29 19:42:56Lucia watched as Thea made her way to the kitchen counter sitting down beside Peter. He gave her hand a light squeeze and she gave him a tight smile.
Lucian clenched his fist as he watched them interact like that. He hated watching this, he hated not knowing. Thea was hiding something from him. This truth still didn’t sink in, he was shocked but what Bella said about her not being his mother still overshadowed everything leaving him with no space in his brain to think about anything.
Did he think that he was the only one hiding things from her? Was he blaming her because she hid something from him while he held onto a bigger secret? He never knew he had such hypocrisy within him…
“We need to talk…” His father said calmly.
“No, you need to talk,” Lucian said, “And I will listen, for now…”
As he added that last part his father looked away with a pained look in his eyes. This was something
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