LOGINSelene's POV
I woke up suddenly to the loud buzzing of my phone rattling against the old wooden nightstand. My heart skipped a beat before I even opened my eyes. For one dizzy moment, I thought it might be Victor calli
Selene's POV Eli looked between us, his small face moving from mine to Anthony's and back again, reading the air the way children read air before they understand words. He could feel that something had… changed, but he just didn't know what.Then he raised his chin."Anyway," he said, with the confidence of someone who has considered the matter and reached a satisfying conclusion, "I am more handsome than th
Selene's POV This time I gave him everything.Not the restrained version of myself that had always kept something held back, always kept one hand on a door in case I needed to leave quickly. All of it. Every part of me that had been waiting, without knowing it was waiting, for something that actually felt like this.
Selene's POV For a moment I said nothing.I just held the phone against my ear and let the words settle into me fully, all the way down, until I understood the complete shape of what he had just said.He had reasoned it out. Sat somewhere and turned it over and arrived, with what sounded like conviction, at the conclusion that his running to Camilla and my carrying a child were the same. That they cancelled each ot
Selene's POV I had believed, for a long time, that I had gone numb.Years of being looked through by people who had decided what I was worth before I had opened my mouth. Years of swallowing things that should never have been mine to swallow. Years of telling myself that if I just held on long enough, stayed quiet enough, endured enough, it would eventually mean something.I had believed I had gone numb to all of i
Victor's POV I didn't answer Anthony.I couldn't look away from the screen.She was standing at a podium in the hospital lobby, surrounded by reporters and royal household members and camera flashes going off every few seconds, and she looked like everything I had failed to see when she was standing right in front of me. I had looked at her every day for years and I had never really seen her.A reporter spoke, asking a question that broke through the noise of the room. Something about the marriage. About the years she had spent in Nightshade Pack as an Omega. About what had really happened.Selene looked at the reporter for a moment. Then she answered.She did not flinch. She did not soften it or redirect it or reach for words that would let everyone leave with a comfortable version of events. She spoke plainly, the way someone speaks when they have decided that the truth is the only thing left worth giving.She said she had lived in Nightshade Pack for years under a disguise. That
Victor's POV My mother didn't wait for an invitation. She never did.Her eyes swept the room one more time before settling back on me with a sharpness that told me exactly what she had come looking for."Where is she?" she asked."She is not here," I said.
Selene's POV I waited
Selene's POV I blinked hard, trying to clear my vision. When I finally focused, I saw that it was Dimitri who had slapped me.Victor's father stood in front of me, his face twisted with rage. His eyes blazed with an anger so intense it made the air around him feel hot."You did this!" he shouted,
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