Elena's POV Sunlight flooded the room through the floor-to-ceiling windows. I'd slept in way past dawn, and as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, I saw my phone was already a graveyard of missed alerts from Pheisar. Reading his "apologies," I couldn't help but feel the irony. If he'd asked to mate with me a few months ago, I would've been over the moon. But now? I'd already collected enough disappointments to fill a stadium. "What a psycho," I muttered with a cold laugh. Suddenly, a message from Selene popped up on my comm-stone. It was a photo with a timestamp: 1:00 AM last night. In the picture, Selene was wearing a lace nightgown that left nothing to the imagination, sitting daintily on Pheisar's lap. Pheisar's lips were pressed against her chest. The vibe was so thick with tha

