ROMAN
I knew I shouldn’t be here.
I knew it the second I stopped walking and stayed in the hallway instead of going further away like I was supposed to.
This wasn’t my place.
Whatever was happening in that room… it was beyond me. Beyond my role. Beyond anything I had been asked to be part of.
But I couldn’t leave.
I couldn’t just walk away and pretend none of it concerned me.
Because it did.
I didn’t even fully understand why—but it did.
Something about all of this… about Luna Faye, about the way things had been unfolding since morning, about that mark on her wrist—it pulled at me in a way I couldn’t ignore.
So I stayed.
Far enough from the door.
I knew better than to get too close. Alpha Alexander would sense me if I crossed that line. I didn’t need to be told that—I could fee
