Dominic’s POV
The castle wasn’t just quiet, it was the weird kind of quiet that gets in your bones, makes you hyper aware of the stupidest stuff, like the sound of your own lungs working overtime. I should’ve been down the hall, in my room with Mira, playing the loyal partner, right? I promised her. But every time I looked at her, those eyes, wide and innocent in a way that made me want to crawl out of my skin. I felt this off-brand guilt clenching up my chest. And for what? Couldn’t even put a name to it.
And Elora kept crawling into my head, like she set up camp there.
The maids wouldn’t shut up, whispering about her being restless, showing off those ugly marks from the attack. I kept telling myself, Hey, this is just what an Alpha does, checks in on his Luna. Being responsible. Exc
