Selene's POV
The King left first. He simply turned and walked away as though everything that needed to be said had already been decided, as though the room and everyone in it would fall into place without further instruction. No one tried to stop him. No one questioned it.
The doors closed behind quietly.
And still, no one moved.
I didn't either.
Not because I didn't know what to do, but because I understood something now that I hadn't before.
"They won't react to me anymore," I realized and exhaled slowly.
Mara was the first to recover.
Her composure slid back into place with practiced ease, but not perfectly. There was a fraction of tension beneath it now, something that hadn't been there earlier. Her gaze didn't come to me immediately. It shifted to Adrian firs
