His lips smelled of whiskey and sin, his fingers tasted of ashes. The skull ring on his hand scratched my skin as if it were a seal—his mark on my flesh. "You knew what you were getting into, little one," he murmured, and his voice was pure poison. Deep, rough, addictive. Like him. Lucien was not a man to love. He was a curse, a shadow, a story ...Read more