OLIVIA’S POVI should’ve trusted my instincts.Even as the breeze whispered through the trees and the night wrapped around the garden in an illusion of calm, something in my chest tugged and twisted—an anxious heartbeat urging me to be alert. But I brushed it off, thinking maybe I was still spiralling from the chaos of the ballroom.I had checked. I had looked.There had been no one. No shadows. No footsteps.Just silence.Just the cold stillness of a night that was supposed to have been mine. Ours. A beginning, or at the very least, closure.I took one last look at the moonlight dancing on the pool’s surface. That’s when it happened.A sudden, sharp shove to my back.So swift. So unexpected. So brutal.My arms flailed as a startled cry escaped my lips. The cold water swallowed me whole before I could even scream properly. It was like falling into a void—a moment suspended between air and silence, then shock and suffocation.The world became blur and bubbles and panic.The chill gripp
OLIVIA’S POVIt was happening again.The hollow ache in my chest. The slow, familiar unraveling of my hope. The dizzying dance between belief and heartbreak that Dominic always seemed to trap me in. His eyes, his voice, the way he looked at me tonight—it was all pulling me in, only to abandon me in the same breath.Why did he still have this effect on me?The music swirled around the ballroom, but it barely reached me. My thoughts were louder than any melody, my heart heavier than any conversation. My mind replayed the events like a cruel reel: Evelyn’s pathetic display, Dominic’s silence, then his half-hearted defense of me, followed by their dance. A dance I had no business watching—but couldn’t tear my eyes away from.His hand on her waist. Her face lifted toward his, triumphant and cruel.I was a fool to think things would ever be different.Still, I stood my ground, dodging the scornful stares of the high-ranking Lunas who had once spat on my name and spat even more venom into th
EVELYN’S POVThey all looked at me like I was a monster.One by one, their gazes shifted—not with pity, not even confusion, but with sheer disgust. The same people who had once praised me, who had cheered for me, defended me, called me “our Luna” with pride—now they recoiled as if I had committed some unforgivable sin when a few moments ago they were the ones provoking me. How quickly admiration curdles into judgment. How fragile loyalty is when built on convenience.And Dominic…The way he looked at me—that cold, soul-crushing glare—it was as if I were the rot infecting his entire world. Like I had been nothing but a thorn in his side, a burden he was finally ready to cast aside. Gone was the warmth, the appreciation. He looked at me as if he had never wanted me near him. As if I were the villain in his story all along.He says he never loved me. Never.Then what was it, all those times he praised my strength, my loyalty, my devotion? What was it when he let me tend to his wounds, st
DOMINIC’S POVEvelyn's expression tightened. “Dominic, please, not here. You’re making a scene. Let’s discuss this somewhere private,” she hissed through clenched teeth, still clinging to the illusion of control.But I didn’t let up. Not this time.“No,” I said firmly, my voice steel-edged. “You made the scene the moment you chose to manipulate the entire pack. The moment you turned my life, my choices, and the fate of everyone in this room into a carefully orchestrated lie.”I scanned the faces around us. The same Alphas and Lunas who once whispered in corners about my devotion to Evelyn were now witnessing the truth unravel before their very eyes.“You think hiding behind tears and painting yourself the victim would protect you? You thought people would never question the narrative you fed them. That I’d just go along with it. But you never considered what would happen if the truth surfaced.”I turned to the crowd, my voice unwavering.“Well, here it is.”Evelyn’s lip trembled. Her
DOMINIC’S POVI couldn’t breathe.My chest tightened as Olivia’s words echoed in my ears, sharp and unforgiving. The look in her eyes—not hatred, not disappointment, but a carefully constructed wall of indifference—was what hurt the most. She had mastered the art of pretending I didn’t matter. And tonight, she wielded it like a dagger."You really think you can lead with your heart so tangled in lies? No wonder your judgment has always been clouded, Dominic. No wonder you chose Evelyn, and from now on, you shouldn’t come back to me and ask why I chose Derek over my own mate."She hadn’t even flinched when she said it. She just turned away and walked off, leaving me stunned next to the dance floor with the weight of her words slamming into me like a landslide.But that bracelet. The one on her wrist.I remembered it now.Bloodied fingers. Smoke and dirt-filled air. A soft hand pressing it into mine, whispering, "Hold on... you’re going to be okay."I had been wrong all this time. Dead
THIRD PERSON’S POVDominic stood frozen on the dance floor, his eyes locked on the retreating figure of Olivia as her gown swept behind her like a wave of cold finality. The applause still echoed around him, but it no longer sounded like praise—it sounded like mockery. Applause for the wrong reasons. Applause for something he had ruined.His heart pounded violently in his chest, not from the dance, but from the weight of realization and rejection. That bracelet—that damn bracelet. His hands shook slightly, still tingling from the touch of her skin, and his mind reeled with images from the past: fire, metal, and a pair of hands dragging him from the wreckage.Dominic had often wondered about the night he was pulled from the wreckage, teetering between life and death. In the weeks that followed, as he healed, the story told to him had always been the same—Evelyn was the one who had saved him. She had claimed it softly, almost modestly, never pushing the narrative too hard but allowing i