NORA
The door slammed shut. I stood there. Frozen. The sound echoed in my head like a death sentence.
Sylvester didn’t just shut the door. He shut me out.
His words rang over and over, slicing into me like a silver blade.
“You can never be my Luna.”
I blinked. Swallowed. Tried to breathe. I couldn’t.
The room was spinning. My heart pounded so hard it hurt. Are people two-faced? Say one thing, do the other, act one thing today, another tomorrow?
He thinks I did this. He thinks I tried to hurt Mira. To hurt her pup. Why should I? If I wanted to, I would have a long time ago.
The realization hit me like a brick wall. A sharp, stabbing pain ripped through my chest.
I wanted to scream.
I wanted to shake him, to make him see me, hear me. To remind him of the love in his eyes earlier th
