Selene’s POV
Something inside me was loosening quietly, steadily, like a knot that had been pulled too tight for too long finally giving way. The bond. Our bond. The ancient thread the Moon Goddess had bound between Dante and me had always been frail, starved of warmth, starved of acknowledgment, starved of even the smallest attempt at connection. He had kept it that way cold, restrained, locked behind the walls he’d built around his heart.
When I first came here I had tried my best to fight for that bond to never fade, I wanted Dante to accept me as his mate and treat me like I meant something to him. However, instead of accepting me and treating me as his mate he decided that the best thing for him was to treat me as if I was a nobody and allow his subjects to ridicule me as if I was f
