~Lucian~ One second she was there, screaming at me with that fire in her eyes, calling me a bastard, daring me to go f**k Veronica, daring me to prove her wrong, and the next second there was just empty space and the smell of her. I didn’t move. I just stood there, staring at nothing, d**k still hard, heart still racing, hands still shaking like I hadn’t just said the most unforgivable thing I could have said to the only girl who ever made me feel human. I didn’t mean it. God, I didn’t f*****g mean it. The words about Veronica came out of my mouth like poison because I wanted them to hurt her the way I was already hurting. I knew she did some nasty s**t with my dad when she entered his office. Because there was fear tangled with arousal and confusion and something else I didn’t

