Damon & Natalia
Damon
“I’m not Mira. I’m Natalia, Andrei’s ex-wife… And I’m alive.”
My heart stopped.
The entire room went silent for one terrible, endless moment. And then the whispers started.
“Did she say… Natalia?”
“Andrei’s dead wife? The one we held the funeral for?”
“She’s been alive this whole time?”
“Has Damon been keeping her prisoner?”
I couldn’t move anymore. My feet felt rooted to the marble floor as I stared up at Natalia swaying dangerously on the stage. Five years.
Five years of careful planning, of protecting her, of building a life together—all of it gone in a single sentence.
“The Alpha of Ashmoor kidnapped Andrei’s Luna…”
“How could she do this to her own pack?”
“She wouldn’t have. She loved us. He had to have forced her…”
All the faces in the room t
