[Long chapter.]
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Ave made sure not to allow herself to physically react to Lucian's brief touch on her hand until she was in the confined space of the place where Prince Aaron said his goodbye, he was called by his personal bodyguard who came to inform him that he was being summoned by his mother.
However, he didn't leave until he took her hand, where she had spaced out at his side, and pressed his lips to her knuckle in the way a gentleman bids farewell to a lady. It was the same hand Lucian had touched, but his lips had no electrifying effect on her, unlike a certain someone's little touch that had sent her pulse quickening with the rush of blood and a feeling she couldn't quite place her fingers on.
