<span style="font-family:Calligraffitti"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffffff">Chapter Fifteen - Crime and Punishment</span></span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffffff"><i>Three days later</i><br/>
</span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian sat in the middle of the Workroom, looking down at the ring in his hands. It was the same ring that he had had on him the first time he and Ayla sparred. They had had one more match since then, which had gone similarly to the first, and he had told her about the ring then. It was as easy as putting it on and taking it off. He had summoned Ayla here late at night, with her brother already in bed. All he told her when she asked why is that it was ‘time for your punishment.’ He looked up as he heard the usual knock and open,  a small smile on his face.</span>