#Chapter 69 - The Road to Discovery

[Violet’s POV] I hadn’t wanted to leave Lucian. That unexpected moment in his study sparked something I wasn’t prepared for. Longing. Yearning. An eagerness to truly belong to someone that I considered to be my other half. I knew it was wrong to have those grand thoughts. Mainly because I knew what it was like to be disappointed and spurned by people who were supposed to love me. I wanted to believe Lucian’s words. I wanted to believe that he possessed the power to ensure that nothing bad would ever happen to me again. But I knew, deep down, that wasn’t possible. Yet, the thought was touching. I also wanted to believe that I did belong to him. Unfortunately, even that wasn’t a sure thing either. Of the two of us, Lucian was far more intuned with his wolf than I was with mine. While the connection was growing stronger with each passing day, I had gone through years of mistreatment to where I had almost lost my wolf entirely. I didn’t currently have the ability