Then he gaze fell to the door again. He was remembering.
The way she looked up at him.
The way her bare body had trembled.
The way her lips had cracked open around the words “f**k you.”
And still..still..how she had tried to hide the way her n*****s had stiffened in the cold, her breath quickening when he touched her.
As if her body was already betraying her. As if, beneath all that fire and filth, she had begun to feel exactly what he needed her to feel.
Good.
It would be so much more satisfying when she broke.
He took one step back into the room, the heel of his boot slick with blood from where she’d been held down.
Then he turned to Vale.
The smile was gone. The mask too.
Lucien’s face was stone cold.
“I accepted that girl because she’s a virgin,” Lucien said, voice low an
