~SELENE~
The ride to Magnus’s territory felt like falling into a storm.
Snow blanketed the forest, muting every hoofbeat as we rode in silence. Darius and Lucian protected me, their wolves was on edge beneath their skin. Caspian followed behind, his hand never staying off from the hilt of his blade. The bond between the four of us hummed with tension—not from mistrust, but from the knowledge that we were heading into the lion’s den.
And I was the prize Magnus wanted most.
“He won’t kill you,” Lucian muttered as the woods grew darker.
“He wants too much from you.”
“That doesn’t mean he won’t break me first,” I said.
“He’ll try,” Caspian added grimly.
“But we’ll be right behind you.”
Not if I go in alone, I thought.
Because this wasn’t just a meeting.
It was a test.
And I had no
