Lucian

Who the hell does she think she is to dissect my life?

She spoke of my 'failure to protect,' but she didn't know the full story. She didn't know the exact kind of suffocating regret I carried every single day.

I wasn't off gambling or flirting or hiding. I was fighting creatures I don't know, fighting a crucial, bloody battle miles away that I believed was necessary to secure our future. I was the Alpha; the Pack came first, and I was so convinced I had secured Selene behind safe walls.

I wasn't with her. That was the core of the wound, the thing that bled silver every time...