~Elena~
And then I heard him.
“That’s enough.”
Just two words. That was all it took. But the way he said it? Oh my Moon Goddess. It was like someone slammed the mute button on the entire universe.
Silence.
Straight-up, deadass, fear-of-God silence.
Like the type of silence where even the kids who were fighting in the back row suddenly remembered their manners and sat up like church mice.
Like the type of silence where your ancestors stop sipping tea in heaven and lean forward like, “Oop. That’s the voice of a man who’s about to commit a felony.”
Because that voice didn’t yell.
It didn’t bark.
It didn’t even raise a decibel.
Lucian was walking forward.
Correction: Lucian was prowling forward like a whole damn beast who just smelled blood. His steps. I swear I could hear the fl
