Seraphina:
I watched them walk together like the world belonged to them.
Alexander didn’t touch her, not once, but he didn’t need to. His presence wrapped around her like a shield, like a declaration. The pack saw it. I saw it. And I hated her for it.
That Red Moon girl walked at his side as if she had earned it.
As if she hadn’t stumbled into his life by accident. As if her entire existence was not a reminder of the game that she had played.
My nails dug into my palms.
“Don’t,” Mandy murmured beside me.
I didn’t look at her. “Don’t what?”
“Don’t glare like that,” she said calmly. “You’re making it obvious. And he is going to notice it, and you don’t want the others to see it too, Seraphina.”
Obvious. As if my humiliation hadn’t already been paraded across the courtyard.
“He’ll
