Vivian’s pov
The candlelight flickered when Vespera opened the door, and my heart stopped.
She saw me curled under Dominic’s furs. She saw his bare chest. She saw everything she needed to destroy me. She knew I had been with him in the tunnels. But finding me curled up under the Alpha’s personal furs, in the exact center of his private bed, made her lose her composure.
For a moment she just stared. Her beautiful face twisted into something I’d never seen before—pure unfiltered rage mixed with something that looked like betrayal.
“What is this Solari wench doing in your bed?” Vespera repeated, her voice rising to a high pitch. She dropped the edge of the pelt as if the fur of the pelt itself had burned her.
My heart hammered against my ribs. I scrambled backward across the large ma
