Gemma’s Pov
Since leaving the Alphas and staying hidden away with Zoe, Sean’s mate, I had learned one thing about her very quickly—she was nothing like I expected.
Zoe was calm, wise, and powerful in a quiet way. She didn’t brag about what she could do, but you could feel the magic rolling off her skin whenever she walked into a room. The woman had lived for centuries, and somehow she still had kindness left in her heart after everything she had suffered.
I envied that.
Because kindness was something I no longer felt inside myself.
After my dad’s funeral, after everything with Lewis, Richard, Sean, and Lucien, I had finally snapped. I turned my emotions off because I couldn’t survive another second drowning in grief. Every person I loved either died, betrayed me, or got hurt because o
