Kali's POV
The feast might have still been roaring behind me, but all I heard was the sound of my own pulse. It thudded in my chest, quick and uneven, like the echo of a storm that had been building all night. I couldn’t stay in there, not with them draped around him like satin ribbons, not with the council smiling like they had already won.
I hated how much it hurt, and how the hurt seemed to have rooted itself already in the pit of my belly. I knew I was always telling myself that the only reason I was getting close to Diego was so ynst I could be his breeder, but seeing all those girls gush over him tonight, changed something in me.
Maybe it was jealousy or something else, I wasn't sure, but if there was one thing I was certain about it was the fact that I didn't like the way I was
