Sora's POV
The reporting wraps up, and the Lycan King makes it official.
I get the title. I get the freedom.
It's on paper now. Sealed. Real. I have a place in the Lycan Kingdom that's actually mine. Not borrowed. Not tied to a man or a house or a son I have to hand somebody. Mine.
I'm not anybody's anything anymore. Not a Voss ward. Not Blackwood's Luna. Not a wife, not a tool. Just me.
First time in my whole life. Just me.
Selene comes to tell me herself.
She doesn't send Robin. She comes.
"You saved me," she says. "Back then, you told me you didn't know what it meant. What you'd done." She looks at me. "Now you know."
I stand there in front of her.
And it all runs through me at once. The nine-year-old in the mud. The fire, three months ago. Seven years of marriage. Everything
