Chapter 56

56 (Lucian’s POV) Dealing With ItLucianMara and I woke up early, ready to skip breakfast and head straight to the office. We needed distance-from the chaos, from the politics, from them. But of course, my father ruined that plan when he linked me:“Family breakfast. My lounge. Be there.”I almost crushed the tablet in my hand.Mara’s idea of getting a ‘holiday home’ was no longer a distant plan. It was happening. The mansion might have beenhome once, but now it felt like a web of manipulation. And I was done getting caught in it.