Selene’s POV
A week slipped by, slow and heavy, inside these four walls. The air felt stale, almost thick. Jasper and I didn’t step outside, not once. Life went on right outside our windows, the pack’s voices, warriors out training, a howl every now and then, all of it drifting in but never really touching us. We kept to ourselves. We stayed hidden. Like prey pretending to be stone.
Every morning, I tried to convince myself we’d go out. Take a walk. Breathe air that wasn’t recycled. Let the sun really find us. But every morning, my feet stayed rooted and I found another excuse to stay inside. My body was healing, sure, but my heart? Not so much. Not for this place. Not for him. And definitely not for whatever he wanted.
The house had everything we needed... food, clothes, all of it clea
