Chapter 203

ELORA'S POV Why does he always do this to me? How does Lucian always manage to tear through my doubts the moment I start building walls again? This wasn’t the plan. I didn’t come here to fall apart in his presence. I didn’t come here to cry…especially not tears that threatened the makeup Selene spent almost an hour perfecting. I didn’t come here to unravel, to feel my chest cave in, to watch every defense I’d worked so hard to build crumble right in front of him. And yet, there he was. The man I swore I didn’t love anymore. The man I pretended I’d moved on from. Down on his knees, with tears in his eyes, asking me to be his wife again. I stared down at him, breath shaky. “What if Maya…?” “I rejected her this morning,” he said quietly. My head snapped up. “Lucian!” ‘Yes.’ My wolf screamed. ‘That bitch finally got what he deserves.’ I gasped. ‘Sierra.’ Does he even understand what that means? The pain he'll go through, the damage it will cause, the consequences… “Do you know what that wi