Chapter 88: "Because it makes me want to do wicked things to you."

Lucian couldn't say anything even after he was dragged by Ave to sit around the bonfire like everyone else who had come to join them. He didn't know how he felt about everything that was happening at this moment, but he sat down on the rock by the burning fire, watching as the kids played around it, singing a song he faintly remembered hearing other kids sing in his childhood but had never joined in to sing as he was an outcast in his own home and land.

Lucian's eyes moved to the burning wood in the fire that sparked and glowed as the wood burned into hot coals. He stared at one particular coal in the fire that glowed deep red before it burst into sparks, and then his eyes moved across from him where Ave was laughing hard at something Hugo's wife must have whispered to her.