Serena’s POV
Three months had passed since the van plunged into the ravine, taking Nellie with it—that weak omega who had stolen Ethan’s heart and threatened my future with him. That day should have been the end of my problems. But something didn’t fit:
Ethan wasn’t broken. He didn’t even show signs of beginning to break.
“Are you all right, love?” I asked after a week, following a day of patrol in which his mood hadn’t shifted at all.
“Everything’s perfect,” he answered with a hint of coldness toward me. “Why do you ask? Shouldn’t it be?”
His reply startled me, making me flinch.
“Oh, of course there’s no reason it shouldn’t be. It’s just… I don’t know, I’ve started noticing you seem different, as if something hurts.”
It was a lie. Nothing about him was different—it was me who was h
