I was almost beating myself up after the words left my lips, knowing I had broken one of his unsaid rules, but still I waited with bated breath, ready for his silence or even his snore at this time.

Lucan had become the most unpredictable part of my life, and I had learned to brace for anything.

But then he spoke, shattering everything I thought I knew about him.

“It is what my life has become,” he said quietly. My head snapped toward him at the sound, only it was still dark, and even the ultra vision could only do so much. “Zoe came with light, making sense of the...