SERAPHINA’S POV When Maya shoved her phone in front of my face, I almost cramped while I was stretching. “Can you believe this?” I squinted, reading the headline. ‘Alpha Kieran Blackthorne to Host Intimate Soirée with Future Luna, Celeste Lockwood.’ The photo attached was grotesquely polished—Celeste in a backless gown, coy smile in full bloom, clutching Kieran’s arm like he was a flight risk. I barely recognized the man beside her. He looked like a wax figure. Too still. Too stiff. Too… not him. Maya snorted as she pulled the phone back, her face twisted in a sneer. “‘Intimate soirée’? Please. That s**t is posted on basically every media outlet in LA. She probably hired half of LA’s photographers to make sure every angle of her new nose job gets coverage.” I d

