SELENA’S POV
“Selena Ravenwood, Beta Prince Lucian, step forth.” The High Priestess' summons had sounded out over moonlight, unyielding and pitiless.
I released the breath I was holding and took a step towards the altar, with Lucian beside me. His hand brushed against mine, warm and reassuring.
The palace yard was filled as the entire royal court was present, their eyes aglow with the blue light of the full moon. Caius stood with them with his face expressionless and Elira beside him, her lips curled in the very same evil grin that I had not been able to get rid of in my head since the incident in the restroom last night.
Her red eyes, that ice-sharp authority that had me trapped, that smile that still seared my skin.
There was something up with her and I knew it to my bones. She wa
