KAIDA REED POV

Amelia was right. Lucien did look like he'd seen a ghost.

"Lucien," I called carefully, then flinched as he turned to face me.

His expression was darker than I'd ever seen it before, and his jaw was clenched so tightly that I could hear his teeth grind beneath the pressure.

Something must have happened for him to be this shaken.

Wait... Don't tell me.

Nothing's happened to Dad… has it?

The thought slammed into me with enough force to make my stomach twist painfully. I crossed the room before I could stop myself, panic rising in my chest as my fingers wrapped tightly around Lucien's wrist.

"What's...