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Slowly, Lucien started coming to awareness. The darkness of the night has disappeared from the bedroom, replaced by the light of the day.

He'd slept through the night and he'd slept without nightmares. Again.

His eyes found Danika who slept beside him, his forehead ceased on a frown. It is her.

It's not a medicine Baski might have made, or Vetta's sexual techniques or writing scrolls until he's at the ...