~SELENE~
By dawn, the air outside Magnus’s stronghold was colder… brisk with truth and consequence.
I stood on the balcony… draped in the heavy fur he had wrapped around me after the night we shattered every line of loyalty I had drawn. My body still ached from the way he had taken me. Claimed me. Worshipped and ruined me.
But the ache in my chest?
That was something else.
I didn’t know what disturbed me more… the passion I had surrendered to… or how natural it had felt.
I wasn’t supposed to want him.
I wasn’t supposed to need anything from him.
And yet here I was… standing in the stronghold of my enemies… waiting for the consequence I knew would come.
And it came… swiftly.
Magnus found me just as the sun crested the trees, dressed in dark leathers… his power coiled tightly benea
