Lilith POV
Lilith lasted two days before she broke.
Two days of staying in her room like Nicholas told her to, two days of hearing Lucian's footsteps in the hallway and feeling the pull of the incomplete bond tugging at her chest every time he walked past her door without stopping. Two days of Sebastian checking on her with worried eyes and Nicholas bringing her food and neither of them saying what they were all thinking.....that Lucian was getting worse, not better.
On the third morning she woke up to the sound of something breaking outside and she knew immediately it was him.
She got dressed quickly, her body still sore but functional now, and made her way downstairs and out through the side entrance that led to the training yard. The sun was barely up, the sky still grey with dawn, and the estate was quiet except for the rhythmic sound of fists hitting wood over and over and over.
Lilith stopped at the edge of the training yard and watched.
