Chapter 181

181 The Punch That Broke The Silence

Mara

I sat frozen, trying to process what had just happened.

I never saw the punch coming. None of us did.

Lucian had struck a nerve, and his father’s reaction made that painfully clear.

But more than the violence, it was what came after that shook me: the raw confession, the tears, the collapse of a man

who had been carrying far more than any of us had realized.