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Chapter 148 - Chapter 139 - The Seduction Technique Known as Arson

The pan was already smoking.

Taryn squinted at it from her seat at the far end of the tavern's modest kitchen, arms crossed and mouth pulled into a slow, judgmental frown. Kah'el sat beside her, elbows on the table, looking every bit like a man witnessing a crime in progress.

Across the room, Lucien stood barefoot at the stove — his still damp hair a tousled, ink-dark mess barely tied back at the nape of his neck. His shirt was unbuttoned halfway, sleeves rolled haphazardly to his elbows like he'd fought the fabric and barely won.

Whatever he was cooking hissed ominously.

"I thought you said you've cooked in an actual kitchen before," Taryn muttered.

"I have," Lucien replied, far too cheerfully. "I cooked for an entire resistance during the siege of Valemire."

Kah'el snorted, barely looking up from the potato he was casually peeling. "That was two centuries ago."

"Don't age me, ice king." Lucien shot back.

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