Chapter 75: Little Liar
At last, after a long stretch of polite noise and carefully curated smiles, everyone who had come to Lucien Hart's birthday party was gone.
Only Lucien's mother remained.
This time, it was she who saw Serena Blackwood out.
Serena walked alone into the underground parking garage. It was silent down there, empty enough to feel hollow. Even the few cars left behind seemed stranded in the vast concrete stillness.
The garage had no windows. No sky. No sense of time.
But Serena knew it was night, and because of that, a sharp thread of loneliness slipped through her for no reason she cared to name.
Her headlights blinked.
She slid into the driver's seat, tipped her head back against the leather, and let out a slow breath. The moment she finally stopped moving, the exhaustion came for her all at once, along with a faint pulse of pain behind her eyes.
