LOGINSelene's POV
Dimitri raised the sword, ready to strike Abel, but then the sound of shouting and clashing metal echoed from the corridor outside.
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.
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 Some of the council members started whispering to one another, while others stared down at their phones with wide eyes and mouths moving without sound.“What rubbish are you saying?!” Alpha Dimitri’s voice suddenly tore through the silence. He stood up, slamming both fists against the
Selene's POV It had been several days since I shut down Lisa and her pack of cowards. Finally, real peace had finally returned to the little corner of my world. No one stared at me with judgement. No one whispered behind my back. Lisa and the others hadn’t come near us since. I stretched under t
Victor's POV My boots pounded against the wet stones as I ran past the main hall, past the courtyard, and all the way to the guest house to see Selene.When I finally reached the guest room door and pushed it open without knocking, I was surprised to find it empty. The bed was stripped bare, and t
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