Selene's POV
Warmth settled over me in a way I hadn't felt in a long time.
Not the sharp, fleeting kind that comes and goes before you can hold onto it. This was slower. The kind that starts somewhere in your chest and spreads outward until it reaches parts of you that have been cold for so long you had stopped noticing.
I stood at the window for a while after Abel left, just feeling it.
And I realised, standing there in the quiet of the afternoon, that it wasn't only him. It hadn't started with him. Over the past days, something had been changing in the pack around me, so gradually I hadn't fully seen it until this moment, when I stepped back and looked at it all at once.
The mockery was gone.
Not reduced. Not quieter. Gone.
The looks that used to follow me through the hallways, t
