Selene’s POV
“Then why do you look like your heart just got broken?”
The question hit harder than it should have.
For a moment, I couldn’t speak. Couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t even look at him properly. Because if I did, I was afraid he would see the truth.
I had absolutely no right to feel this way. Yet here I was.
Standing in the middle of the garden with my chest aching because Cain spent time with another woman.
A woman he had loved before he ever met me.
It was ridiculous.
I looked away first.
“You’re imagining things.”
“I’m not.”
His voice was quiet. I hated how easily he could read me. The evening breeze stirred the flowers around us.
The scent of roses drifted through the air.
Everything felt strangely still. Like the entire world was holding its breath.
“Selene.”
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