Selene’s POV
The second Lucy left, her perfume still stayed, not wanting to leave the atmosphere. I couldn’t shake the weight of her words as they pressed down on me.
Stay in your lane or I’ll put you back in it.
My hands wouldn’t stop shaking, even after the door clicked shut. But it wasn’t fear. I had run out of that emotion for a long time. What rattled me was the reminder of everything I’d tried to outrun, everything I buried out there in the woods.
And now it had chased me all the way here. Into this pack. Into this supposed home. Into Jasper’s world.
That, God, that terrified me.
I sucked in a breath, forcing my lungs to fill, trying to slow my racing heart. Step by step, I climbed the stairs, careful.
Jasper lay curled up beneath his blanket, chest rising and falling slowly a
