#Chapter 152: Where I’m Needed Most

Aria’s POV How was it, even after all this time, after all this distance, after all the hurt that sat piled up between us – I still so easily fell back into Lucian’s web. I wanted to be stronger, to be harder, and keep up the walls with him, yet every time we’d been around each other, he seemed to slowly chip down my defenses. This time, the walls crumpled entirely. I wished he would kiss me again. I wanted to feel that same passion we had shared only once before. If it weren’t for the kids watching a movie in the living room, I would have already dragged him inside and to the bedroom where our love could have sparked and seared the bed. But I was not the homemaker I had once been. I had more responsibilities now than to serve and please him. I had the children, and my clinic back in Moonglow. There were people there who depended on me. Yet, even knowing that, in this moment, I was tempted. To stay with Lucian... To maybe do things right this time. I’d wanted to be with