#Chapter 151: All The Things He Missed

Aria’s POV Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised that Lucian finally pieced this together, but the reality of it still hit me like a ton of bricks. I don’t know why I thought he would never find out. There was no reason he wouldn’t, especially with Jasper and Lucian’s own parents already in on the secret. Still, now that he knew, I understood that things would fundamentally between all of us, as the truth of our family and its true dynamics came into light. Would he want us to stay here? Would he force it, going to the courts to keep his kids close? And what of me and my role in this? How wrong was I to keep this man’s children away from him? Would he ever actually forgive me? Should he? I probably should have told him the truth of it a very long time ago, just as I should have told him I was Dr. A. Secrets upon secrets had built up between us since the start of our relationship. Now, as they were being torn down, I felt vulnerable and exposed in a way I hadn’t before. Tel