Chapter 38: Selene Unmasked
(Elena POV)
The halls of the Citadel were too quiet.
Not the kind of quiet that makes you feel peaceful; this one felt tense, like a string pulled to its breaking point. Whispers followed me everywhere I went, bouncing off stone pillars and torch-lit walls. I understood why.
Damian was still in there.
Lucian was still with him. Not because he cared—no—but because even the Lycan King wasn't dumb enough to leave an angry Alpha alone in his fortress.
And in these walls, somewhere else...
Selene.
The woman whose name still tasted like ash in my mouth.
The woman Damian promised to build a future with.
The woman whose fake pregnancy ruined every apology he ever tried to make.
The woman who had almost broken me more than once, long before the Citadel came in
