Chapter 310 – Ambition and Desire
His fingers tapped against the armrest, unconsciously counting, calculating, doing something—anything.
He'd always been like this. He functioned in chaos. In pressure. In problems and deadlines and fires and seductions and court appearances.
Now?
He was just sitting. Thinking.
No tasks. No negotiations. No explosions. No spreadsheet from Hell's Asset Division needing his approval.
And the worst part?
What he wanted to do now was… work.
Lux blinked at himself.
"Seriously?" he groaned. "You get attacked by bounty angels, flirt with three goddesses, claim a Pride heiress, and now you're craving spreadsheets?"
He dragged a hand down his face and sighed.
"I need help."
But the truth?
This was the curse of being a creature born of both Greed and Lust.
Ambition and desire ran through his blood like magma.
And without something to chase, to climb, to conquer?
He felt useless.
