MasukSelene'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.
Victor's POV "Go after her," Kael whimpered, a broken sound I had never heard from him. "Please. We can't lose her."But my feet felt like they were buried in concrete."Alpha." Abel's urgent voice broke through the mind link. "I found something on Mirella, and you need to see it right away."I cl
Victor's POV My fa
Victor's POV Alone in my study, I sat by the low crackling fire, its flickering light creating long shadows on the walls. Despite the flames, I couldn't shake off the chill. My hands were tightly clenched on the edge of the desk, and my mind refused to quiet.For some weird reason, the image of Di
Victor's POV Kael kept whispering, clawing inside me. “Take her. She’s willing. She smells like Selene. Come on Victor, we need her.”I stared down at the girl still on the floor. She looked up at me with glassy eyes and trembling lips, pretending she was afraid, pretending she was innocent.But a






