"So here is your renunciation, Alpha Kane." I looked at Damon directly now, for the first time since I had entered. "I release you. Not because the law demands it. Not because my father summoned me. I release you because I want nothing you have, and I want nothing you are, and I want nothing of the life I would have had beside you."
My voice did not shake. I had feared, riding here, that it would. It did not.
"You did not throw me away because I was weak," I said. "We both know that. You threw me away because some part of you saw what I would become, and it frightened you, and you wanted a Luna who would never make you feel small. So you took a frightened child and my father's ambition, and you called it a choice."
Selene made a small sound beside him. I did not look at her yet. Her mom
