MasukSelene'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 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 “Alpha Dimitri, I think…” Anthony started, stepping forward.“Think less,” Alpha Dimitri snapped. “You are speaking out of turn.”The room fell into a silence so tense I could hear my own heartbeat.Alpha Dimitri turned his glare back to me. “And as for you,” he said slowly, his voice
Selene's POV Anthony’s groans pulled me back to reality. Whatever mess I had with Victor could wait. This wasn’t about feelings or pride anymore.This was about life or death.I grabbed my phone with shaky fingers and called the Nightshade doctor. I barely remember what I said, I just remember yel
Selene's POV I didn’t answer Victor's question. Not because I didn’t want to, but because it didn’t matter right now. What I wanted to say would only bounce off his walls. I looked at him—really looked—and saw the truth written all over his body.“This… this is your father, isn’t it?”Victor didn’
Selene's POV Anthony's hands immediately slipped from my waist as I jerked back. I turned around to see Abel storming toward us with rage written all over his face.“What the hell is this?!” he barked.“It’s not what you think,” I said quickly.Abel’s eyes narrowed, shifting between me and Anthony







