|| Lilac's POV ||
The drive home was a blur of streetlights and racing thoughts. My knuckles ached from how tightly I'd been gripping the steering wheel, the leather creaking under my desperate hold. The damage was done. Kael's public meltdown, the wolfsbane scandal, the press swarming like vultures— it was all out there now, immortalized in headlines and gossip columns.
And then there was me.
His future Luna. The woman he'd humiliated in front of the entire kingdom.
A bitter laugh nearly escaped me. How quickly the mighty fall.
But beneath the anger, beneath the sting of betrayal, something else pulsed through me—relief.
Because now, finally, I had my opening.
While Kael scrambled to salvage his reputation, I could disappear. No more expectations. No more pretending. Just... freedo
