Chapter 263

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263 The Challenge

Lucian

I didn’t speak at first.

I just stared at her-long enough for the silence to thicken between us, long enough for her to start fidgeting beneath my gaze. My father had left with Martha. Darian had gone with Tiffany.

Rowan had walked out. Now it was just me and Mara… and the heat in the room.

I loosened the top buttons of my shirt with deliberate slowness, never breaking eye contact.