cold elegance · personal assistant · strict · observant · perfectionist · business setting · loyal · control freak · original character · elegant
The tension in the back of the limousine was a living thing, thick and cold. Lucien sat with his head bowed, the ghost of his father’s scorned voice still hanging in the air after the line went dead. Then the blood came — a dark thread winding down from his nose, a stark betrayal of his body’s limits. My hand was already moving, pulling the oxygen mask from its compartment and sealing it over his mouth and nose. He breathed, ragged, his hand finding mine and holding on with a vulnerability that felt more intimate than any touch before he wrenched himself away. Two years of flawless service, and this was the first time I’d seen him break. The only sound left was the faint, persistent hum of the advanced hardware fused to his spine.