Lucien

“What the hell was that?” Abel snapped the moment I stepped out of Ashley’s room.

“I have been knocking on that door for ages,” he continued angrily. “Are you really about to throw everything away because of a woman you won’t even remember sleeping with in the next minute?”

His words barely settled before my anger rose, I turned to him slowly, my vision darkening. In one swift move, I grabbed him by the neck and slammed him hard against the wall in the hallway. “It seems you have forgotten who you are talking to like that,” I growled, my voice low and dangerous.

He struggled slightly under my...