Selene's POV
“Please,” Victor whispered. "I need to understand. Not because I doubt you. But because I want to know all of you. Everything. No more secrets between us."
I looked at his face, so sincere and open. He wasn't asking because he cared about status or power. He was asking because he loved me and wanted to know the truth.
That realization made something inside me shift.
He had proven his love. He had taken a silver blade for me. Nearly died for me. And he was lying in this hospital bed asking not who I was in terms of rank or title, but who I truly was as a person.
I took a deep breath. "You are right. No more secrets. But Victor, the answer to your question is complicated. Very complicated."
"I don't care how complicated it is," he urged gently. "I just want the truth."
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