Lucien's pov

Control.

What did it truly mean?

Was it having everything and everyone in the palm of your hand? Holding the kind of power men spent lifetimes chasing, the kind women willingly surrendered themselves to? To stand above all at the very top?

Or was it the ability to bend others to your will?

To use them to your advantage, to make them submit whether through force or by offering something they craved, something they could not resist.

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