Jae hadn't planned on going back to the bar.
But after the call with Han — after hearing, in Lucien's own voice, the full architecture of a betrayal that had apparently been running for months — something in him had needed to be anywhere that wasn't his office, wasn't the house, wasn't a room where he'd have to sit with the specific, unbearable stillness of everything he now knew and couldn't yet act on.
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