SELENE’S POV
The forest felt different on the way back, a part of me couldn’t even believe that this was happening right now. I couldn’t believe that I was really going to go back and reject Dante. That was something that I never thought I could do, it was an option that I thought I never had. He had made me feel so small and I had tolerated the belittling from his pack to the point that a part of me, a part of me that I had barely been aware of was starting to believe it
It wasn’t the kind of difference I could explain with words, only something that settled under my skin like a warning I didn’t want to hear. The air was colder, sharper, and every sound felt amplified the snap of a twig, the rustle of leaves, the distant call of an owl watching us pass. The pack borders loomed ahead, i
