~Elena~
“He has a mate. What’s her name again…Veronica right? Zia said, casually, like she was talking about the weather or the fact that the sky was blue.
And I swear to the Moon Goddess, my entire soul just… evaporated. Like, poof. Gone. Body still standing. Heart still beating. But everything else? Gone. Dead. Vapor. Ascended. I just stood there, blinking like I’d been hit in the face with an actual silver bat.
“I’m sorry, he what?” I asked, even though I’d heard her perfectly. Even though every single word had hit me like a truck with Lucian’s scowling face printed on the front. My voice cracked like a haunted flute.
My palms were sweating so bad I almost dropped my own hands. I don’t even know what that means, but that’s how it felt.
Raina was chewing her gum slower now, like s
