SELENE’S POV
My meeting with Lucas earlier had left me unsettled in a way I couldn’t explain. It wasn’t fear exactly at least not in the way Dante inspired fear but something quieter and more corrosive. Doubt. The kind that settled deep in my chest and refused to leave.
Everything he had said replayed in my mind over and over, each word echoing louder the longer I sat alone. I kept thinking about Dante about how he would react if he found out I had been meeting Lucas long before today. Before the training. Before the tightened security. Before everything began unraveling.
I wanted to be the one to tell him.
It wouldn’t make the betrayal hurt any less. I knew that. But at least it would mean I hadn’t completely stripped him of his dignity. At least he would know that some part of me sti
