로그인Selene's POV I sat with Melissa's question for a moment.The honest answer was that I didn't know. I had not been close enough to Ethan in those moments to measure what I was seeing against what love actually looked like in him. He was not a man who wore his feelings plainly at the best of times, and the glimpses Melissa had described, the safe walks home he arranged without announcing them, the unguarded laugh at the glass door, were not… conclusive on their own.
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.
Vanessa's POV I was still struggling to catch my breath.My hands were shaking, and my heels kept clicking too fast against the marble floor as the guards dragged us down the hallway. Camilla stayed quiet beside me, her face pale and her eyes wide like she was about to pass out.Heck, my chest bur
Victor's POV The drive to the banquet felt longer than it should have. I sat stiff in the back seat, fingers tapping against my knee, my jaw clenched the whole time. As we got closer to the venue, my chest felt increasingly heavy.I couldn't shake the image of Selene being there. Looking beautifu
Selene's POVVanessa scoffed like I had just said something stupid. “That’s all you can say? Really? You should be on your knees right now, begging for forgiveness.”Her voice echoed through the hall. It wasn’t loud, but it was sharp, full of hate, and it cut through the music. In that moment, peo
Selene's POV It was strange how quickly the whispers started. Spreading like wildfire, moving from mouth to mouth.“Why is Prince Ethan trying to defend that thief?”“Could it be… is that girl his lover?”“Oh goddess… I think she's his mistress.”The words stung. I could feel them crawling on my s







