Selene’s POV
The Spiral was in my eyes.
Not a mark.
A presence.
A movement.
When I blinked, it pulsed. When I looked away, I felt it linger—like something inside me was still watching even when I wasn’t.
I touched the mirror. My reflection didn’t follow.
It stared back.
Unblinking.
And smiling.
Only slightly.
But enough.
“Selene?”
Kade’s voice behind me snapped the moment.
I turned. “It’s fine.”
Lie.
He knew it.
But he nodded anyway.
“I just needed to see,” I said, forcing calm into my tone.
“Did you?” he asked quietly.
“Enough.”
We didn’t speak again that night.
By morning, five more wolves forgot their names.
One forgot how to shift.
Another thought his mate was his sister and screamed when corrected.
Hollowfang was unraveling in slow, cruel inches.
And I was th
