Thump! Thump!Lucien could hear his own heart beat in his ear.It was a rather strange feeling for a man who had not held his wife throughout their five years of marriage, but now, here they were, pressed against each other like a pair of sandwiches.The softness of Alexandra’s chest and her frail figure in his hold sent Lucien’s mind sprawling. It sent currents of unstable emotion, which Lucien had never felt, through his entire body.Blinking his eyes, the redhead asked out in concern. “Are you okay?”Alexandra, who was still on top of him-frozen, blinked her eyes multiple times.In her whole time of knowing Lucien, this was the closest she had ever gotten to him. For a married couple this degree of intimacy would have been nothing, but for Alexandra who was now a divorcee, this amount of intimacy sent her heart drumming against her ribcages.Throughout their time of being married, she had always wondered what it would be like being in the arms of the one she loved.Cared for. Excit
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