THE LUNA HE NEVER TRULY KNEW
"I have always been this person. You just stopped seeing me. Or perhaps you never started."
The courtyard had become completely silent. Even the wind through the ancient trees seemed to fade away, as though the world itself was holding its breath to witness this moment. Marcus searched her face for the Luna he thought he had known, the woman who had laughed at his jokes and warmed his bed and stood beside him with her hand in his. He searched for her and found only a stranger wearing her skin, a woman he had never truly understood, never truly seen, never truly known.
And the worst part—the part that made him want to howl with grief and rage and shame—was that he couldn't even say she had de