DANTE’S POV
The silence was worse than the pain ever was, I kept asking myself how I had gotten to this point. How I hadn't seen all this coming? I was also regretting what I had said to Selene the last time I saw her, if I hadn't told her she had to defend herself maybe this wouldn’t have gotten this far. Yes, a war was inevitable but I would have been much stronger with her by my side than without her. Funny that it took me this long to realize and accept this. I had always seen her as a weakness that needed to be cut off and looked out for. Never did I imagine that one day my very strength would be dependant on her presence.
At least pain had weight. Heat. A shape I could fight against.
This…this hollow ache where Selene should have been, was a constant erosion. A tide pulling at my
