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Chapter 67 Lucian's Pov

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I did not sleep. I just couldn't sleep.

It was not because the night was difficult. Not because I was afraid or not only because I was afraid, which I was, in the unfamiliar way of a man who has spent his entire adult life building structures that he controlled entirely and has now encountered a fact that will not be controlled, that has arrived without consulting his plans and has settled into the architecture of his life with the complete, unapologetic permanence of something that intends to
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