Chapter 32

Kelly POV

The room felt like it had shrunk. My pulse pounded in my ears as the person standing before me was no other person than Lucian.

Of all people, of all places.

Laugh escaped through my lips before I could stop it, a sharp, humorless sound that echoed awkwardly in the small space. Lucian, now stood in front of me wearing a refined police uniform.

Lucian as a cop? This had to be some stupid joke.

"Lucian?" I managed, disbelief coating my voice. "You're a—what? A police officer now?"

He smiled faintly, but there was no trace of Lucian—the psycho I used to know. His posture was straight, his face unreadable.

"Kelly," he said, his tone even. "It's been a while."

Under normal circumstances, I would've made a snarky comment, something about how ridiculous it was that the man who once tried to take advantage of me, was now enforcing the law. But today, I didn’t have the ener