(Chloe’s POV)He was gone.One second, Lucian had me pinned against the wall, his hands gripping me like I was the only thing keeping him tethered to reality, and the next, he was out the door, leaving me breathless and trembling in the middle of the room.I stood there for a moment, still feeling the heat of his body, the ghost of his lips on mine. My head was spinning, my heart racing, and all I could think was What the hell just happened?The room felt too empty without him, too cold after the furnace of his touch. I pressed my hand against the wall to steady myself, my body still buzzing with the memory of his kiss, of the way he’d growled my name like it was the only word that mattered. I wanted him back. I wanted him here, right now, finishing what we’d started.But something had changed in an instant. Something outside—some threat I couldn’t see but Lucian had sensed. He’d gone into full-on protector mode, leaving me here, hanging on the edge of what we could have been, what I
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