SELENA’S POV
Things were falling apart, and I could feel the carefully-laid-out threads of my plan unwinding quicker than I could tape them back together. I stood at the epicenter of what should have been my greatest victory, only to find it quickly spiraling into the worst nightmare of my own inception. The battlefield that I had crafted from the bottom up, the strike that I had put together for months, the perfect opening to execute Lena and reclaim what was rightfully mine—all of that was rapidly being reduced to ruins before my antiquated gaze.
“Get back!” I screamed at Jubril’s troops, but my request was inaudible above the commotion created by Lena’s sorcery easily tearing through them like rubbish.
“Retreat and get back!” They couldn’t fall back. They couldn’t get back. And tha
