y

rmed toward me, her heels click

ecting the man you love?" She hissed, rushing to Dam

ied to do to me," I replied cool

ou? Why have you changed

lene. I just discover

to trying to justi

inful familiarity of the scene. In another lifetime, it was me where he was. I was

lutching his ribs dramatically. "She s

and it hasn't even been twenty four hours? I told you I never wanted to see your face again. What part of that sugge

she had hidden her feelings well but now that I didn't hav

er saw all the tells

her, voice calm bu

Selene. If you think he still wants me,

n you said you didn't want him. Selene, hasn't Damon been good to you? You have changed so much

otten herself. That anger wasn't for me... it was for Damon. And I sa

n muttered, struggling

rage and confusion, pretence or truth. Then, with

ned them as they turned. "

o the dark, the echo of my o

*

er too artificial. I took a flute of champagne from a passing w

ing its coolness ground

ll

equal parts longing and hurt. The pain in his voice

ed my eyes. The past clawed i

*

t after my enga

fool, I had agreed, even knowing what he wanted

oftly, "are you s

ed. "Why wo

th me," he said, eyes clouded. "Because

I have made my c

have to do this. You don't know him like I do

hing us from a distance, arms crossed and with that

ter than you ever could

Killian as

mon is my destiny. Even if you were my given mate, I can't

e nodded once, t

nd later that night, I had kissed Damon in fr

fool I

*

ld stop it. I quickly wiped it away, b

had made Killian go through. I was such a foo

was nothing. And for what? For a man who had plotted my death? For a man wh

n't. I had hurt him enough and I wouldn't hate him if he di

the table and a gentl

ping my eyes quickly. My

nking the last of the tears away

t was, they had seen the cracks in

had buried, was no long