Chapter 49

49 (Lucian’s POV) Some Insight

Lucian

My father exhaled. “You’re much stronger than I remembered.”

I let out a quiet laugh. “Stronger than I let on.”

He nodded, eyes dropping. He couldn’t look at me for long. Guilt had a way of lowering even a king’s gaze.

“So?” I said, cutting through the silence.

A smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. “You finally claimed each other,” he said, catching Mara’s scent on me.