Elara's Pov
If Damon reported the trafficker, then the entirety of the situation, I finally understood it. You don’t report your own crime. You don’t point fingers that lead back to you.
Selene and Damon had been connected long before the fire. He hadn’t “found” her by chance. He had taken her away from the life that owned her, the one where she had to sell her body to survive. He brought her into his world at the exact moment her power was most useful to him.
“How long had he been laying these pieces?” I asked myself. Years, apparently. Years of moving truth around so I would never see the lines he drew. He made sure no one would look too closely at the corners of my life.
I felt both sick and oddly clear-headed, “How long had he been planning on using her against me?” I muttered t
