"Lucian, you've grown taller!"
"You're too thin! Are you eating properly?" another added, squeezing his shoulders like a concerned mother.
Lucian's expression changed from calm to pure discomfort. His body stiffened under their embrace, his emerald eyes moving toward Medeia as if silently pleading for rescue.
Medeia's face darkened as she saw many of them touching his body over and over again. She had never even touched him for so long!
If the rumors were true, didn't that mean they were Richard's wives?
How could they touch another man like that? Have they no shame?
"Can you back away?" Medeia's cynical tone made them turn their heads toward her. "He looks uncomfortable."
The women froze for a moment, exchanging glances before the eldest-looking one spoke, "Oh, and who might you be?"