SELENE’S POV
The light did not burn, it swallowed me whole. One moment I was standing beside Dante, feeling the weight of every Alpha’s stare, hearing the crackle of torches and the restless shifting of wolves. The next there was nothing but silence. Not the quiet of night. Not the hush of a held breath. A vast, endless silence that stretched beyond sound itself.
The clearing disappeared. The wolves disappeared. I could still feel Dante’s presence. He wasn’t gone like the others… just distant. As if something was slowly pulling us apart. We had already been pulled apart multiple times before but this was different. This was something else, it felt new and different. It felt like I was in a whole different reality where neither time nor common sense existed. I tried reaching for Dante thr
