DANTE’S POV
Selene had been talking about something being different in the atmosphere a lot lately. At first I thought she was just sensing the shift in power now that she and I had finally finished our mating ritual. I thought that maybe it also had something to do with the elders being finally dealt with. Another thing that I thought could have contributed to her anxiety was the fact that we were getting close to the full moon, this was going to her full moon with me officially.
The full moon had never frightened me. I had been born beneath one. Raised beneath one. Crowned beneath one. It was not an enemy. It was blood. It was instinct. It was home. But that night, as the moon rose swollen and white over the treetops, something in my chest tightened in a way I did not recognize. Selene
