Serena
Dinner was supposed to feel like family, a time when we could sit together, share warmth and laughter, and feel the bond that made our little household whole, but tonight it felt like a stranger’s table, as though every smile, every word, and every glance belonged to someone else entirely and I had been left out of a play I did not understand.
Kael sat at the head of the table as always, his presence filling the hall so completely that it seemed to bend the light and sound around him, his voice carrying easily, confident and commanding, and yet he was not speaking to me, he was not looking at me, and his eyes, those golden eyes that had always held mine, were instead fixed on her.
Elyra.
I wondered why she hadn’t left yet. It’s been days and Kael still treated her and welcomed h
