When My Mate Chose Another, the Lycan King Chose Me
To erase the doubt.
I knew this day would come. I had known it since the first time I saw Natasha standing in the moonlight, since the first time whispers started comparing her face to the one burned into memory. I knew one day I would be forced to speak, to strip the truth bare, to answer what no one else dared to.
I just didn’t think it would be this soon.
The silence stretched, heavy and suffocating, every breath in the hall waiting, every gaze fixed on me. And in that silence, Natasha’s eyes—pleading, desperate, fragile—were the only ones I could see.