Kael´s POV
The harrowing scream that echoed inside me wasn’t just hers. It was mine too. We were both fighting for the same thing: the body, the power, the will. And the fused beast we shared was beginning to shatter.
The false Selene wasn’t just an echo. She was a complete entity—intelligent, fierce. She used her sweetness like a dagger, her desire like an anchor, and at times she managed to confuse me, entrap me, overpower me. But her essence… wasn’t that of my mate. She wasn’t Selene. She wasn’t Skadi.
And that was her downfall.
I closed my eyes in the midst of the vortex that was us. I saw her memories—the ones she had stolen or fabricated to deceive me. I erased them, one by one. I tore her face from my memory. I stripped her of the right to inhabit my body.
“Get out!” I roared,
