ログインSelene's POV I looked at her for a long moment."What does that mean?" I said slowly. "How did you find out?"Melissa looked at me, confused. "What?""What exactly did you find out?"She pressed her lips together. Her hands restlessly moved in her lap, the fidgeting of someone who has been sitting with a piece of information and has not yet decided whether saying it out loud will make it more real or less bearable."Melissa," I called out quietly. "Tell me."She exhaled slowly."His destined mate is a human."My hand went slack.The cup slipped before I could stop it. It hit the floor and shattered, pieces scattering wide across the tiles, and I sat there and stared at them without moving, without speaking, without being able to do anything at all for several seconds."A human?" I said finally."Yes."I looked up at her."Are you sure?""Yes," Melissa nodded. "I followed him. I know I shouldn't have. I know it was too far. But I couldn't stop myself and I needed to know where he kept
Selene's POV It was the end of the month before I was fully ready for it.I had known it was coming. I had been seeing it approach for weeks, marking it off in my mind the way you mark off something that carries both weight and anticipation, something you want and are not entirely sure you are prepared for. The time had come. I was about to formally take over my territory.
Selene's POV "Because I think I might know who he is," I said.Anthony was still for a moment. "Go on."I looked back at the page. At Mr. K sitting at the bottom of the list, separate from everything else, with that quality of a name that has been deliberately made as small as possible.
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 “Caz, I…” Elara's voice broke. Like the words suddenly got stuck in her throat.Dimitri started struggling against my grip, his body tense with anger. His fist drew back, and for a moment I thought he would hit Caz again. But to my surprise, Elara rushed forward, her hands flying out
Selene's POV I sta
Selene's POV After typing out the message, I paused to read it over before hitting send and placing the phone on the bed beside me. Without waiting for a reply, I turned to my computer.Once the light from the screen hit my face, I opened a new tab and typed in, “basics of ship operations and sea
Selene's POV For a moment, I couldn’t speak. I really couldn’t because part of me still wanted to lie. To soften it. To spare him.But I didn’t come this far just to keep protecting the same man who had let me fall again and again.So I let myself remember.I remembered when he stood in front of h







