~Selene's POV~ The south property sits exactly where Rhys's directions described it, a low stone house with its own gravel drive and a separate entrance set apart from the road by a stretch of young trees, and Selene parks in front of it for a long moment before she gets out of the car, simply looking at it the way she has learned to look at most things before she steps into them. Inside, the house is precisely what she asked for and nothing beyond it. She walks through it slowly, the way she walked through her Silvermere apartment on her last night there, except this time the inventory she is taking is not of what she is leaving behind but of what someone else has built for her in her absence. The kitchen is stocked with the basics, plain and sufficient, no excess, no attempt to antici

