Chapter 161

Selene’s POV

The forest was too quiet once Mary and Lydia disappeared. Only the sound of my own breath filled the space.

Caius stood across from me, half-shadowed by the trees, his coat rumpled from Lydia’s grip. For a long moment, neither of us spoke.

I didn’t know whether to strike him or fall to my knees.

“You’re alive.” My voice was a rasp.

He flinched, “I never stopped being.”

“Then where the hell were you?” My control snapped, rage tearing free after years of silence. “Six years, Caius! Six years I raised our daughter alone, thinking you were dead, or worse. Do you know what that did...