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My husband Nathan canceled our Halloween trip the same way he'd canceled every trip we had planned for the past three years. This time, the excuse he gave was an emergency investor meeting that couldn't wait. I believed him until I opened Instagram and saw his little assistant’s post. Sienna was lying on a beach in matching sweatshirts with my husband, her name stitched across his back and his name stitched across hers. The same custom hoodies I'd told him I wanted us to get together years ago. Her caption said: "The CEO took me to the mountain last year, now the ocean. Where should we go next? Drop your best photo spots below. The CEO looks so handsome in pictures." The comments were alread

But after marrying Tyler, this was what I got? I lifted my gaze, straight to the hidden camera tucked away in the corner of the room. "Tyler, don't regret this."

And she saw it through me. She took a single step back, into the shadow of the hall again. “You wanted to know what I’d choose?” she asked quietly. The bond pulled tight between us. Hot, vibrating. On the edge of something breaking. “I choose me,” she whispered. “Even if that means choosing no one.” She closed the door in my face.

Ryan's wolf growled beside me, but Darius didn't even flinch. He leaned closer, his breath hot against my ear. "You don't get to choose, Jessica." I slapped his hand away... And chose Ryan. In front of everyone. I thought I had won that night. But I didn't know the war had just begun.

But then I straightened my spine. "She doesn’t have to choose today. But I’ll keep choosing her—until she knows I’m the only choice she needs."

“And it is not about you making a mistake, it is about me… I wanted to choose, and she was my choice. She always will be.” Her laugh came out brittle and hollow. “You think this is choice? She just appeared and you threw everything aside.” She said, wiping her tears. “You forgot everything and everyone else existed, that protocol existed, that life itself was real. You saw ONLY her.” “I chose her.” The words didn’t need to be loud. They were final, and I wasn’t going to change them to satisfy anyone, no matter the price that was going to be paid with this. “You chose her over me.”

But a flicker of something that might have been acknowledgment. "I am not a prize to be won," she continued. "I am a person who chooses. Every day. Every moment. I choose Dante because he earned the right to be chosen—not through grand gestures, but through showing up, through consistency, through seeing me when I was invisible." Kael's throat worked. "I see you now."

“And it is not about you making a mistake, it is about me… I wanted to choose, and she was my choice. She always will be.” Her laugh came out brittle and hollow. “You think this is choice? She just appeared and you threw everything aside.” She said, wiping her tears. “You forgot everything and everyone else existed, that protocol existed, that life itself was real. You saw ONLY her.” “I chose her.” The words didn’t need to be loud. They were final, and I wasn’t going to change them to satisfy anyone, no matter the price that was going to be paid with this. “You chose her over me.”

"Why all three?" I watched as she frowned. "I did not ask for this" "Everything in life is choice." "No." Her voice sharpened. "Not this. Do you think I want to be hated? Hunted? Watched like a threat over something I have no power over? The bond chose me. They chose me. Or maybe the goddess did. But I never made this choice." Her words struck me harder than I cared to admit. Because I could see the truth in them. She was not grasping for power. She was a girl chosen by the heavens themselves.

Ninety-one threads and the river and the cold morning light and everything we had survived to get here. "I choose you," I said. "Not the bond. Not the bloodline. Not the network or the war or any version of this that existed before I actually knew you." I paused. "I choose the person who walked into my house in a torn dress and refused to be moved by anything I tried and was moved by everything I didn't." I held her eyes. "I will keep choosing you. Every day. Without reservation." She was quiet for a moment.