Lumi’s POV
No one speaks after that.
The silence stretches, thick and suffocating, it feels louder than the music that was playing minutes ago, louder than the murmurs that filled the room. Everyone is staring, I can feel it without looking.
My chest rises slowly, but it doesn’t steady me. Nothing about this moment is simple. My mind is still trying to catch up, still circling the same thought over and over again. They’re brothers.
It doesn’t make sense, they don’t even look alike. Caius is sharp, polished, controlled. Briggs is something else entirely. Rougher, darker, and annoyingly far more attractive. But that’s not the point right now.
Right now, I can feel the weight of everything collapsing into this one moment. And I refuse…I refuse to shrink under it.
“Tell me he doesn’t mea
