Lana POV
The window seat offered a view of a city I didn’t know, and yet it still felt more like home than anywhere Artemis could reach.
I didn’t tell anyone where I was going. I just packed what I could, booked a last-minute flight, and disappeared.
The moment the plane touched down in Vienna, something inside me exhaled. Not relief, not freedom. Just… a pause. A pause from the guilt, the ache, the illusion.
I turned off my phone the moment I left the airport.
I didn’t want to see his name.
Not when I knew he’d be looking. Not when I knew he’d be asking why. Why I left. Why I vanished without a word. Why I couldn’t face him or Luna ever again.
But how could I?
I wasn’t just heartbroken—I was humiliated. I let myself fall in love with a man who would never be mine. A man who, at hi
