Selene's POV
For a moment, I couldn’t speak. I really couldn’t because part of me still wanted to lie. To soften it. To spare him.
But I didn’t come this far just to keep protecting the same man who had let me fall again and again.
So I let myself remember.
I remembered when he stood in front of his family and watched me take the blame for something Camilla did. He had stayed quiet that day. Like a coward. He let them strip me of my title. Of my dignity. He didn’t raise a finger.
I remembered the Blood River threat. How I begged him to listen, how I warned him. And he told me I was imagining things.
Then, the recent vote came to mind. How he stood there as Alpha, with every right to overturn it... and chose to stay silent.
He did build a lab, yes. But the problem was never what he
