SELENE’S POV
I didn’t go back to Dante’s room, after the fight we had just had and the lie that I had just told him I wasn’t sure if I could face him again. I needed to be alone with my thoughts, I needed to get my story straight and I couldn’t do that with him next to me.
The moment I crossed the threshold of the pack house, the walls felt too tight around me, the air too thick with questions I wasn’t ready to answer and truths I couldn’t afford to let slip. My heart was still racing from the edge of the forest, from Lucas’s presence lingering on my skin like a phantom touch, from the lie already forming in my mouth before Dante had even opened his. He had questioned me and I had lied to him, I tried to do that with a straight face but I didn’t think that he believed me. And that was
