HOW DID IT ALL HAPPEN??

LUCIEN'S POINT OF VIEW, DAYA BEFORE AT THE CABIN. I pulled Sloane closer to me, relishing in the way her body shook as she trembled from the aftershocks of her orgasm. We’d just finish making love, or rather, she let me let out steam on her. Ever since I learned about what Eldric did to my mother, my mind has reverted to a dark place….Somewhere, I swore ever since meeting Sloane that I would never return to. Eldric should have been my father, my protector, a man I should have been able to look up to as a young boy. But instead, he ruined my chance at a normal childhood. He killed off the piece of light I had and turned me into the man I was before Sloane walked into my life months ago. I wanted to kill him. Oh, how I longed to stand there and watch as life would drain from his eyes. But I knew my mother would never have liked that. She always wanted me to become better than the man I’d seen my entire life… and I would never spit on her legacy by becoming someone she didn’t want me to b