SELENE’S POV
I paced the length of the guest room like a caged animal, to be honest I was now realizing that I was nothing more than a caged animal. I was even doubting this mate bond, maybe it wasn’t the blessing that I had been trying so hard to convince myself that it was. Maybe this was a curse, another way for the moon goddess to punish me for the new sins she had imagined me doing.
I had replayed the car ride in my head a hundred times already—the quiet venom in Dante’s voice, the disappointment, the accusation. Every time I thought about how he had looked at me, as if I were disloyal… the sting of it made my chest ache. I remembered the way he looked at me with disgust, as if I hadn't just tried to speak to Steven so that things would be easier for him. No, Dante looked at me like
