Seraphine’s Pov You know when they say if you want something, you have to do everything to get it? That is exactly what I am doing right now. I am the Moon Goddess, yet here I am, watching, learning, studying like a lovesick mortal. Every tilt of her head, every laugh she lets slip, every careless touch of her hair — I store it in my mind. All of it. Because if imitating Delilah is what it takes to make Malric see me again, then so be it. I don’t sleep anymore. Not because I can’t, but because I won’t. I can’t allow her even a second of advantage. Tonight, I saw the letter she dropped, and my pulse tightened. Midnight. Malric. She was going to him. So I prepared. I masked my divine scent with the healer’s potion, doused myself in shadows, and followed her silently. Every step I took

