Lucian's POV
I opened a browser.
Typed in the word:
"Periods."
Ridiculous. The vampire prince of the Eastern Courts, heir to the Crimson Throne, predator of predators... googling periods. If anyone ever found out, I’d have to kill them. No hesitation.
But I needed to know.
She’d said the word like it was normal. Like it explained everything. She was curled in on herself, in pain, bleeding. I thought she was dying. And maybe that was what scared me most. Fear. The kind of fear I hadn’t felt in over two hundred years. Fear that she was in pain and I didn’t know how to stop it.
I scrolled through articles. "Menstruation: A Monthly Cycle." "Symptoms of Period Pain." "Why Periods Happen." There were diagrams. Charts. Words that made my head spin. Uterus, ovulation, hormones, lining— I
