I did not remember how I walked out of that rehabilitation room.
Selene was slamming wildly inside me, howling again and again.
“Impossible! That isn’t Damon! Our Mate would never betray us!”
But the Mate Bond did not lie.
At that moment, through the soul-deep thread between us, I could clearly feel Damon in an excellent mood.
There was even a trace of lazy satisfaction.
The kind of emotion one only had...
when they were with someone they loved.
I held onto the stone pillar outside the building and slowly crouched down.
The old scar along my left ribs throbbed violently, as if that silver bullet had drilled back into me.
Passersby looked over in surprise.
I could not say a single word.
I took a deep breath and forced myself to calm down.
I was Elara Vance.
The woman who inher
