That night, I returned to the residence I shared with Alpha Kael.
Shared,only on paper. In truth, I had lived there alone.
In five years, the days Alpha Kael had spent beneath that roof, all added together, did not amount to a single month.
I pushed the door open. The living room lay drowned in dark.
Moonlight filtered through the windows and silvered the familiar shapes of my life,the furniture, the ornaments, the paintings on the walls. Every choice had been Alpha Kael's. Not one of them had been mine.
I stood there, and the whole place felt suddenly foreign.
My phone buzzed.
A message from my mother.
Sweetheart, I heard you went before the Council. Has something happened?
I sighed quietly and let the screen dim.
My mother had always wanted me to make a life with Alpha Kael, ho
