PRESENT
SELENE’S POV:
“Sel?” Bella’s voice reached me and I straigtened up from where I was hunched over the counter with a spoonful of ice cream still in my mouth.
“Yes?”
“There’s a gentleman here to see you.”
I blinked, tossed the spoon into the sink, and glanced down at myself.
I was in my sleeping pyjamas but it was the gentleman’s mistake to show up to someone’s house on such ungentlemanly hours.
Still, I ran a quick hand through my hair as I headed toward the door, silently praying it wasn’t Grayson. Thought Bella would’ve never referred to him as a gentleman if it was.
She stood with the door half-cracked open, her body angled in a way that blocked my view. But the moment she heard me approach, she stepped aside.
I froze mid-step. Corey Allister stood on my front porch, dre
