The ruins stood still, but inside Selene, a storm raged. She felt hollowed out, as if the past had reached inside her and scooped out everything she had built in this life, leaving only echoes of a love she had forgotten. She still felt Ronan’s absence in the space beside her, the mate bond stretched so thin it was close to breaking.
And in front of her there stood Orion.
The man she had once belonged to.
The man she had left behind.The man who had waited.
His violet eyes searched her face, his breath slow and steady, but she saw it now that beneath his unshaken exterior, beneath his calm, there was something wild and desperate. Like he had spent centuries trapped in the silence of her absence. Like he had been fighting for her long before she even knew he existed.
Selene swallowed ha
