Benson’s POV
“This can’t be.” My voice trembled as I shook my head, trying to dispel the reality before me. This wasn’t right. This wasn’t possible. Raylee is mine. She was always meant to be mine.
The world tilted on its axis, the golden glow of the moon burning into my mind like a cruel joke. How did this happen? How did Rainer get the Moon Goddess to change fate?
I couldn’t breathe. My chest tightened as the weight of it all pressed down on me. It wasn’t the title of King of Kings that crushed me—I never wanted that responsibility. I didn’t care if Rainer had the throne. Let him rule, let him have the power. What shattered me, what left me hollow and on the verge of breaking, was Raylee.
She was gone.
Lost to me in a way that felt permanent, like the severing of a bond so deep
