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Chapter 33

Lucian

I rubbed my eyes, and my hand reached out for Haylee, but she wasn’t there. I scanned the room but couldn’t spot her. Rolling out of bed, I put on a pair of pants and stumbled to the bathroom. Opening the door, I saw Haylee getting dressed.

“Morning.” I wrapped my arm around her waist, looking at her in the mirror. “You alright?” I took in the fact that it looked like she hadn’t slept, and her eyes were locked with her own. She nodded her head but didn’t say anything.

I opened my mouth to ask her what was wrong, which wasn’t something I would normally do. But she pushed my arm off her and brushed past me.

I turned, leaning against the door frame, watching her.

Was the room this clean yesterday?

“Massie is coming.” She looked back at me. “I’m going to let you two spend the day together.”

I frowned. What was wrong with her? Before I could ask, she gave me a firm look that told me not to bring it up. Whatever was wrong, she wasn’t ready to have that conversation. Instead, I let her leave.

HAYLEE

I had sent Massie up to Lucian when she got here, and my attention was on the wall of laws. I didn’t know them all, but I knew which one Lucian had started the chain reaction.

I had seen it once when I was cleaning—it was on the back wall, craved in with a knife.

There was a chain of three rules.

One that set the next off, and what did Lucian do? He skipped the first two and went straight to the last rule—the outcome.

I couldn’t let it stand. We had to fix what had been done.

He followed these laws and codes with his life, and I couldn’t have him being thrown out of the club because he went straight to the outcome.

I looked at the codes and knew what I had to do next.

LUCIAN

I wasn’t much of a father, but I knew how to make a sandwich, which was what I was doing when Dash walked in.

“See ya finally fucked up badly enough for her to leave, huh?”

My eyes shot to him. “Do I need to remind you about swearing in front of Massie?”

His eyes flashed with fear because his nose hadn’t really healed since I broke it the last time.

“Haylee left,” he said sharply and with smugness. It hadn’t gone past me that Dash had a thing for her. “Took off about an hour ago.”

I ignored him. Haylee wouldn’t leave, I knew that. She was strong, nothing could scare her off. Just as I thought that, my phone buzzed and I pulled out the phone, seeing an unfamiliar number. I cursed in front of Massie when I saw the attachment.

All along I had thought Haylee hadn’t known about those codes, but clearly, nothing goes past her. She wouldn’t really put herself in that position, would she? Just to prove to me that I had the final choice.

I gritted my teeth. I couldn’t do jack shit while I had Massie, but when the day ended, I would be heading to Haylee. I would tell her she didn’t have to do this. I was the international president, I enforced the codes and laws—the same ones she obviously thought I had broken.

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