Chapter 385: The Door Opens

The Door Opens"Leon," a muffled voice called respectfully from beyond the door.

The silence inside the room stretched long and heavy, like glass holding back a flood.

Leon’s golden eyes narrowed, the warmth of the night fading into something sharper, more awake. His hand brushed through Rias’s tangled crimson hair, a soft, absent gesture of comfort, though his mind had already shifted.elling her.

Her eyes darted once toward Chloe and Lilyn—innocent, flushed but level. But the others? Desperate. Naked guilt etched on their faces.

Mia stood there, gripping the handle of the trolley, her black eyes shaking with horror.

And before anyone could stir, another voice drifted from the corridor.

"Mia? Why do you stand there, daughter? Let me through."

All heads turned.

The doorway was crowded by another form.

Cassidy.

Her black hair fell across one shoulder, her eyes dark as the night, her gown hugging her form. She moved within slowly, pushing past Mia delicately, her eyes lifting—

And froze.

Her own breath caught in an audible hitch.

Because there he was.

Slouching against the headboard, chest bared, completely naked under the sheets, golden eyes shining, a half-smile pulling at his lips. His body — the very same body that had gotten her gasping into the night not so many nights before — lay exposed to her once more. His manhood, still half-erection, rested heavy against his thigh, a giant promise of what it might become.

And surrounding him, fifteen women.

Fumbling with their robes, some holding the sheets, others caught in mid-transition in angles so ridiculous it would have been funny if the air wasn’t so heavy.

The smell struck Cassidy then, as well. Raw. Musky. Indisputable. It swooped into her lungs, coated the back of her throat. Her lips parted in surprise, her chest heaving once before she willed it into stillness.

Her eyes grew wide, dark pools shaking with incredulity.

For one heartbeat, no one stirred.

Only Leon did.

He grinned. Serene. Shameless. As if this mayhem, this scandalous scene, was nothing out of the ordinary, the morning he had always anticipated.