DANTE’S POV Silence, That was what woke me. Not the absence of sound in the room, but the absence of her. It was dunny how I was now longing for her, longing to have her beside me when I had been dismissing her ever since she got here. I couldn’t stand being next to er and I couldn’t stand it when she was pleading for my attention. Its not that I hated her, it was what she made me feel that I hated and yet right now…it was the lack of that which that once irritated me that bothered me the most. For weeks months, even Selene’s presence had been a constant ache in the back of my mind. Pain, anger, guilt, longing. Even when she was far from me, the bond had screamed her existence into my blood. I had felt every sharp emotion she carried, every restless night, every tremor of doubt. Now the

