LOGINSelene'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.
Victor's POV I turned back to the window.Outside, the city continued. Traffic, lights, people moving through streets that had no knowledge of what had just happened inside that hall. The world was completely indifferent to the fact that I had just watched everything I cared about walk away from me in front of five hundred witnesses.I pressed my fist against the window frame and held it there.
Victor's POV The rage didn't leave me when they escorted me out of the hall.It followed me through the corridor and into the car and back to the hotel room they had placed me in, and it was still there when I sat down on the edge of the bed and pressed my hands flat against my knees and stared at the wall and tried to think.But I could not fucking think.
Selene's POV The knock came without warning, and it was the kind of knock that doesn't ask permission.Anthony and I immediately broke apart. And as I pulled back, I pressed my fingers to my lips and turned towards the door.It opened before either of us could speak.My father
Selene's POV The s
Victor's POV When I heard that Caz had arrived at the pack, I smiled for the first time in days. It felt like finally, something was going right.If Selene had asked for my permission to let Caz into the pack, it meant that she was beginning to warm up to me. Otherwise, she would have just brought
Victor's POV My gaze swept over the chaos, but they kept coming back to Selene. Her back was straight, her arms crossed, her chin held high like royalty. And yet… she was still just an omega.Or at least, that was what I had been told.But as I looked at her, really looked at her, I saw nothing we
Selene's POV Before I could make up my mind, Victor suddenly deepened the kiss. It wasn't gentle anymore. It was hungry and… possessive.I should have pushed him back and reminded him that we were in the middle of a divorce, that I was still mad at him.But I didn’t stop him because for one second







